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Dedication of the Building 
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CONTENTS 
 
 The New Hampshire Historical Society 
 
 Laying of the Corner Stone 
 
 The New Building . 
 
 The Dedication 
 
 The Dedication Address 
 
 The Banquet . 
 
 Appendices: 
 
 The New Hampshire Historical Society 
 
 Letters ...... 
 
 Membership: 
 
 Active Members 
 
 Honorary Members . 
 
 Life Members . 
 
 Resident Members . 
 
 Corresponding Members 
 
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ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 New Hampshire Historical, Society Library 
 
 The Old Home, 1840 to 1912 . 
 
 Edward Tuck .... 
 
 Mrs. Edward Tuck 
 
 Benjamin A. Kimball 
 
 Main Entrance to the Library 
 
 Grand Stair Case 
 
 Contributors' Tablet 
 
 View of Entrance from Rotunda 
 
 Kimball Tablet 
 
 Rotunda ..... 
 
 Upper Rotunda 
 
 Reading Room 
 
 Lecture Room 
 
 View of Grand Stair Case from Landing 
 
 WlLLLAM W. NiLES . 
 
 Samuel W. McCall 
 
 William J. Tucker . 
 
 Daniel Hall .... 
 
 Jacob H. Gallinger 
 
 Henry B. Quinby 
 
 Samuel L. Powers . 
 
 Robert P. Bass 
 
 Samuel C. Eastman 
 
 Daniel C. French . 
 
 Guy Lowell .... 
 
 Frank B. Sanborn . 
 
 Charles F. Adams . 
 
 Charles R. Corning 
 
 Edna Dean Proctor 
 
 George L. Kittredge 
 
 Seal of the Society 
 
 Frontispiece 
 
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THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 By Charles R. Corning 
 
 WEDNESDAY, the 21st of May, 1823, the two- 
 hundredth anniversary of the settlement of New 
 Hampshire, was observed with appropriate cere- 
 monies in Portsmouth. The importance of this occasion 
 attracted prominent citizens from all parts of the State. 
 They were deeply impressed with the interesting historical 
 address of Nathaniel A. Haven, Jr., the orator of the day, 
 and agreed that an organization ought to be formed for the 
 collection and preservation of manuscripts and documents 
 relating to the history and biography of the State. The idea 
 of an association created for this purpose appealed strongly 
 to the distinguished company gathered in the ancient seaport 
 capital, and a committee was chosen to petition the Legislature, 
 then about to assemble in Concord, for a charter of incorpor- 
 ation. This was the origin of the New Hampshire Historical 
 Society. 
 
 The act incorporating the Society was signed by Governor 
 Levi Woodbury the 13th day of June, 1823. The incorpora- 
 tors named in the act were Ichabod Bartlett, William Plumer, 
 Jr., Bennet Tyler, Jeremiah Smith, Jeremiah Mason, Richard 
 Bartlett, James Bartlett, Jacob B. Moore, Andrew Pierce, 
 William Smith, Jr., and Nathaniel A. Haven, Jr. These gen- 
 tlemen, together with associates interested in the purposes of 
 the organization, signed the constitution, and the fifth His- 
 torical Society in the United States began its useful work. 
 The original members not named in the charter were Ben- 
 jamin Abbot, Ebenezer Adams, Nathaniel Adams, David 
 
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 Barker, Jr., Peter Chadwick, Charles William Cutter, John 
 Farmer, Asa Freeman, Hosea Hildreth, John Kelley, George 
 Kent, Alexander Ladd, Parker Noyes, Nathan Parker, Oliver 
 W. B. Peabody, William Plumer, Israel W. Putnam, Timothy 
 Upham and Levi Woodbury. 
 
 Among the thirty one original members were citizens 
 already distinguished in various walks of life and many 
 more upon whom the highest of public favors were later to 
 be bestowed. Representative men indeed, were those whose 
 love of State and interest in historical subjects caused them to 
 found this Society. Concord, as the capital of the State, was 
 selected as the home of the new organization. The early 
 records of the Society were very brief, but it is clear that the 
 annual meetings were regularly held. 
 
 Before many years had passed the modest beginnings in the 
 way of a library had so increased that more space within which 
 to arrange the manuscripts and books became urgent. An 
 appeal to the Legislature having been favorably received, a 
 small committee room on the third floor of the State House 
 was assigned to the young society for library purposes. A 
 few years later the books and pamphlets had become so numer- 
 ous and additions were swelling the total so rapidly that before 
 long another change to more commodious quarters became 
 necessary. It was at this turn of affairs that William Plumer, 
 a former Governor of New Hampshire and the first President 
 of the Society, with interested friends, presented a petition to 
 the Legislature asking that a fireproof building should be built 
 by the State for the safe keeping of the valuable property of 
 the Society, but to that appeal came no response. 
 
 During the decade 1835-1845, the condition of the Society 
 occasioned solicitude to its supporters. Owing to the increase 
 of books, a move to better and more convenient quarters 
 became imperative, yet there were obstacles in the way, and 
 the greatest was want of money. At length an arrange- 
 ment was made with the Blazing Star Lodge of Free Masons 
 whereby the library and collections of the Society were removed 
 
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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11 
 
 from the State House and deposited in the rooms of the 
 Lodge. It does not appear that a change so singular as this 
 met with success or approval, for the incongruity of the ar- 
 rangement soon became plain. It is a fact of historical inter- 
 est that the building once the brief home of the Society, is still 
 standing upon its ancient site on the west side of Main Street 
 opposite the Phenix Hotel. In 1840, another change removed 
 the library and collections to the building of the Merrimack 
 County Bank on North Main Street. In this building Franklin 
 Pierce, afterward President of the United States, had his law 
 office. In its day this building was an interesting and perhaps 
 it might even be called an imposing example of contemporary 
 architecture. Naturally it was one of the sights of the town. 
 For many reasons this locality seemed exceedingly appropriate 
 and desirable. The June meetings were kept up and some 
 creditable work was accomplished. But on the whole it must 
 be said that affairs were anything but prosperous because of 
 a lack of adequate resources. The quarter century com- 
 prised in the years 1840-65 was a dark and depressing period 
 for the Society and its few but earnest members. It was 
 due to their unselfish interest that the organization during 
 those years was maintained. Nevertheless, the volumes, 
 newspapers and manuscripts belonging to the Society had 
 now become a valuable collection numbering nearly seven 
 thousand. At the close of the period mentioned the National 
 Banking Act compelled the owner of the building, — a state 
 bank, to close its accounts and go out of business; conse- 
 quently the Society was face to face with a crisis more serious 
 than any that had previously threatened its existence. Fortu- 
 nately the officers of the bank were also members and well 
 wishers of the Society. 
 
 Joseph B. Walker, delivering the dedicatory address in 1873, 
 related an interesting incident connected with this crisis in the 
 Society's affairs. "At the very point of its extremity, and when 
 its horizon was darkest, four of its old friends met, one after- 
 noon in the winter of 1868-69, to devise, if possible, some means 
 
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 to remove its embarrassment and secure to it a permanent 
 home of its own. Four subscriptions, of two hundred dollars 
 each, subsequently increased by a fifth of equal amount, were 
 then made towards the sum requisite for the purchase of the 
 building, whose upper story it had occupied for nearly thirty 
 years, and the whole of which its growing wants would, ere 
 long, demand. This beginning of a thousand dollars, the 
 hearty efforts of Dr. Bouton and some others, more than 
 trebled. With the money then raised (about $4,000) this 
 structure was purchased on the 9th of June, 1869, and con- 
 veyed in fee simple to the Society." 
 
 THE PROBLEM OF SECURING AN ADEQUATE BUILDING 
 
 Changes and repairs necessary to the new use of the build- 
 ing were made very successfully, transforming the interior into 
 a library well adapted to the purpose. But structural defects 
 still existed and could not easily be remedied. Year by year 
 these defects caused constant apprehension of loss by fire. 
 The Society's collections, however, greatly increased, so that 
 at the beginning of this century the shelves were crowded 
 with valuable volumes, and the vault was filled with original 
 manuscripts and priceless letters, among which were those 
 of Webster, Plumer and General Sullivan. Adequate protec- 
 tion against loss became imperative. Want of funds continued 
 to be a serious problem, nevertheless at the annual meeting 
 on the 9th of June, 1897, the question of buying the Chadwick 
 lot adjoining the library on the south was referred to the Stand- 
 ing Committee. On this land stood the remains of a dwell- 
 ing-house which had been destroyed by fire, and the purchase 
 of the property as a measure of security seemed advisable. At 
 the April meeting, 1899, the acquisition of this property for 
 $1,825, was approved. This action was the beginning of the 
 movement for a new building. No one, indeed, denied that 
 the time had arrived to consider the question and to find 
 means to carry it into effect. Books were increasing rapidly 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 13 
 
 and the valuable Sabine Library of 5,000 volumes was soon to 
 come into possession of the Society. 
 
 Among the most devoted members at this time was 
 William C. Todd, whose home was in Atkinson. Much of his 
 time in later life was passed in Concord, and it so happened 
 that he was President of the Society at this very important 
 period of its history. None knew better than Mr. Todd that 
 the first great need confronting the Society was a new building; 
 accordingly at the seventy-seventh annual meeting, the 13th 
 of June, 1900, he addressed a communication to the members 
 offering to give $5,000 toward the erection of a suitable fire- 
 proof addition, provided a like sum should be contributed 
 before November 1. A committee was at once appointed to 
 solicit the necessary $5,000. From this beginning finally grew 
 the building of granite and marble commemorated by this 
 volume. 
 
 At the next annual meeting, 12th of June, 1901, the com- 
 mittee announced that the sum of $5,000 had been secured from 
 willing friends all over the country. A committee consisting 
 of William C. Todd, Benjamin A. Kimball, Samuel C. Eastman, 
 Joseph B. Walker and Virgil C. Oilman was then elected to 
 consider the question of new or enlarged accommodations. 
 A year later the result of their investigation was submitted 
 in printed form. There were about 17,000 volumes and 60,000 
 pamphlets, besides numerous manuscripts. The yearly acces- 
 sions were large and increasing. The sum of $10,000 was 
 wholly inadequate to build a substantial and adequate addi- 
 tion. The committee ultimately recommended that the fund 
 of $10,000 be kept for the purpose for which it had been given 
 and that nothing be done to the present building. But the 
 important paragraph in this report was this: "The commit- 
 tee also report that in their opinion an addition to the pres- 
 ent building is not desirable. Such an addition would be 
 only a make-shift, and it would be far better in the long run 
 to secure an entirely new building. . . ." At an adjourned 
 meeting the 11th of February, 1903, a special committee to 
 
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 solicit additional funds for the erection of a new building was 
 appointed. In 1905 the trustees of the John H. Pearson estate 
 added a gift of $5,000 to the building fund. 
 
 At the meeting held the 12th of April of that year, the dis- 
 cussion concerning a new building became animated, opinion 
 favoring the use of the old premises for the purpose. This 
 meeting was a very important one in the history of the 
 Society. It was at this gathering that the gift from the 
 trustees of the Pearson estate was announced. This gift 
 was secured by the solicitation of John C. Thorne, an 
 active member of the Society. A committee, consisting 
 of the Standing Committee with four other members, was 
 instructed to consider the proposition of a new building and 
 to secure plans, make recommendations and report at the 
 annual meeting. This the committee did, but in the mean- 
 while an agreeable and unexpected incident had occurred, 
 changing the situation. Although plans had been made pro- 
 viding for a new library on the Society's land to cost from 
 $35,000 to $40,000, the committee, recognizing at once the 
 importance of a communication made by Benjamin A. 
 Kimball, paused in its work and did notliing further. Dur- 
 ing Mr. Todd's last sickness he expressed to Mr. Kimball 
 more than once his views and wishes concerning the Society 
 and its permanent location. He had long seen the undesira- 
 bility of adding to the old building and he felt strongly that 
 the best interests of the Society would be greatly advanced by 
 moving to a site nearer the State House. Mr. Todd had, 
 moreover, entertained these opinions for a long time and they 
 were held tenaciously during the last years of his life. It 
 was he who first seriously called the attention of Edward 
 Tuck to the needs of the venerable Society and particularly 
 to the necessity for a new and modern building. 
 
 Mr. Todd became insistent that no money should be spent 
 on the old site, as he thought a building on that location would 
 not be attractive to persons desirous to assist in securing a 
 proper and appropriate hbrary building. Consequently at 
 
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 the 1905 meeting Samuel C. Eastman offered and advocated 
 a resolution favoring a change of location. This was the first 
 step taken toward moving to a site near the State House. 
 It was also at this time that Mr. Kimball took an active inter- 
 est in the project by conferring with the committee and sug- 
 gesting that a structure suitable to the present and future 
 needs of the Society should cost not less than $100,000, 
 that it should be placed in the group of public buildings near 
 the State House, and offered to undertake to raise that sum 
 of money provided the committee took no further action. 
 
 The committee at once agreed that if $100,000 could be 
 raised for a new building, they would be in favor of giving up 
 the Main Street location and seeking a new site near the public 
 buildings around the State House. Discussion followed and 
 inquiries were made as to the probability of Mr. Kimball's 
 success in his unlooked for and generous offer. Members 
 were curious to know the source of tliis benefaction but Mr. 
 Kimball stated that publicity at that time would not pro- 
 mote the success of the undertaking. 
 
 It was voted at that meeting that the subject of a new build- 
 ing should be postponed to a date to be fixed at the next 
 annual meeting, and it was also voted, "That it is for the best 
 interests of the Society to erect a building that shall be ade- 
 quate for the future needs of the Society, and an ornament and 
 credit to the State, and as that cannot be done with the funds 
 now on hand, that a committee of three be appointed to increase 
 the present fund and procure designs for a building of a classical 
 character that will meet the requirements of the Society, 
 to be used especially to inform donors as to the general charac- 
 ter, arrangement and stj'Ie of building it is proposed to erect, 
 (an ideal design not planned for construction) in say four 
 forms : 
 
 1. General elevations, with an imposing entrance properly inscribed. 
 
 2. First floor for library and executive department. 
 
 3. High basement for storage, cataloguing, heating, ventilating 
 and general purposes. 
 
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 4. Section through the center of the building showing interior 
 arrangements as well as possible. 
 The design should be made with special reference to its location. 
 
 THE GIFT OF EDWARD TUCK 
 
 Mr. Todd's communication to Mr. Tuck had deeply inter- 
 ested him in the Society and the necessity for a modern library 
 building. He asked for a comprehensive report of the condi- 
 tion of the Society, together with the tentative opinions of its 
 friends concerning a new building. This information was 
 promptly sent to him. While in Paris in May, 1905, Mr. 
 Kimball explained the project for a new building and its loca- 
 tion, and it was at that time that Mr. Tuck gave assurances 
 of assistance in carrying on the work provided some site 
 near the State House should be selected. Mrs. Tuck now 
 became much interested in the conferences and discussions 
 concerning the plans and details of the new library and con- 
 tinued thereafter an active and helpful factor in the work. 
 Mr. Tuck and his wife were acquainted with Concord, and in 
 a general way knew the proposed site of the building on the 
 land occupied by the Rolfe and the Mead houses. Mr. Tuck 
 suggested that these lots be bought at once, which was accord- 
 ingly done by Samuel C. Eastman and Mr. Kimball. 
 
 The first plan made by Guy Lowell, a distinguished Boston 
 architect, contemplated a library building to be erected on the 
 land then purchased, but during the spring of 1907 Mr. and 
 Mrs. Tuck spent a few days in Concord and carefully studied 
 the situation. They quickly came to the conclusion that in 
 order to build a library such as they had in view, it would be 
 necessary to acquire more land and Mr. Tuck contributed 
 $10,000 toward the purchase of all the house lots on Green 
 and Park Streets, which together with the two lots already 
 purchased, comprised all the property within the square 
 bounded by State, Park, Green and Center Streets with the 
 exception of the Bishop's House and the Advent meeting house 
 lot. At a later date the Advent property was also purchased 
 
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 by Mr. Tuck and presented to the Society, With the acquisi- 
 tion of additional land, new, enlarged and more ornate plans 
 were prepared which Mr. Kimball carried to Paris for the 
 critical approval of Mr. and Mrs. Tuck. For a fortnight at 
 least these plans and sketches were carefully examined and 
 were finally approved. Mr. Tuck expressed himself thus 
 respecting the new building: 
 
 "I want this building to be pure Greek, embodying the best of 
 its kind in architecture and artistic beauty, and in all its appoint- 
 ments to be unsurpassed, making the structure ever a joy to visit. 
 Mrs. Tuck and myself want the building to be the best of its kind, 
 of distinctive character and of the best design." 
 
 As the result of correspondence between Mr. and Mrs. Tuck 
 and Mr. Kimball, and also personal interviews, the Society 
 took definite action at an important adjourned annual meeting 
 held Saturday, Jime 29, 1907. At this meeting the following 
 resolutions were unanimously adopted: 
 
 Resolved, that Messrs. Benjamin A. Kimball, Samuel C. Eastman and 
 Henry W. Stevens of Concord, Frank N. Parsons of Franklin, and 
 Frank W. Hackett of Portsmouth, be appointed a Building Commit- 
 tee, with full power to raise such sums of money as may be necessary 
 in addition to the funds of the Society now especially pledged and 
 available therefor, to purchase the land on the corner of North State 
 and Park Streets in Concord, and erect thereon a new library building 
 on the plan submitted to the Society at this meeting, subject to such 
 modifications as may be found expedient or necessary. 
 
 Said Committee shall have full power to make all contracts required 
 for the carrying out of the plan in the name of the Society. 
 
 Said Committee may appoint its own chairman, treasurer and 
 agents and shall have charge of the disbursement of all funds raised 
 or hereby appropriated for the building or land. 
 
 Said Committee may provide for any memorials that in their judg- 
 ment may be deemed proper. 
 
 Voted, that the Building Committee this day appointed is hereby 
 authorized to fill any vacancy that may occur in their number, the 
 person so appointed to serve until the next meeting of the Society, 
 when the vacancy may be permanently filled. 
 
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 The several house lots were cleared of dwellings and work 
 now began. The foundations outhned indicated the generous 
 design of Edward Tuck. 
 
 To narrate the progress, step by step, leading to the decision 
 that resulted in an acceptance of the plans and the signing of 
 building contracts would be to tell a story altogether unusual, 
 possibly unprecedented in the history of similar projects. 
 Because of the confidence existing between Mr. Tuck and 
 Mr. Kimball, there had been no writings or binding agreements 
 on either side. All that had taken place had been of an oral 
 nature, yet here was an undertaking involving a large sum of 
 money and embracing business contracts and various respon- 
 sibilities. Moreover, an ocean separated one from the other. 
 The foundation walls had been completed and the formal lay- 
 ing of the corner stone was approaching when Mr. Tuck, in 
 order to guard against the confusion which might result from 
 the uncertainties of life, placed in the hands of Mr. Kimball 
 a letter, under date of March 30, 1909, in which he definitely 
 assumed responsibility for the cost of the construction of the 
 building and its entire equipment. 
 
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LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE 
 
 ON WEDNESDAY, the 9th of June, 1909, at half past 
 two o'clock the corner stone was laid with simple and 
 appropriate ceremonies. Prayer was offered by the 
 Rev. Marvin D. Bisbee, librarian of Dartmouth College, 
 followed by the singing of "America" by the pupils of the 
 Parker School directed by Prof. Charles S. Conant, musical 
 instructor of the public schools of Concord. 
 
 ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT DANIEL HALL 
 
 We are assembled today to lay the corner stone of an edifice 
 which will not be inferior in importance to any building in our 
 State. 
 
 As such I invite you to a full participation in and apprecia- 
 tion of the dignity of tliis observance. 
 
 The building itself whose foundations we are laying, by 
 pictorial representation and by printed description, is already 
 fairly well known to you; and it scarcely need be said at this 
 time that the genius and skill of architecture have been laid 
 under contribution for its design and proportions, and that 
 the highest workmanship of builders and artisans will be em- 
 ployed to fashion its details and work out its finish. 
 
 It is to be fire-proof throughout — from Doric column, pedi- 
 ment and emblature, through all its reading and lecture rooms, 
 stacks, vaults, cabinets and corridors. 
 
 Its material will be the best that these magnificent quarries 
 of New Hampshire granite can afford — such as by choice from 
 among all competitors has been selected and wrought into 
 the Library of Congress in Washington, the finest building 
 in America. 
 
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 The work of the most accompHshed artists in stone is to be 
 lavished upon this exquisite material. You already see some 
 foregleams of its splendor in the specimens of wall before you; 
 and when the resources of art in marble, and steel, and bronze, 
 come to be added to this external grandeur, it cannot be 
 doubted that the result will be " a thing of beauty, and a joy 
 forever." 
 
 Knowing something of the general scheme, and the com- 
 mission given to the builders, I assure you that it may be 
 confidently expected that in exterior and interior decoration, 
 this noble building is to be the peer of the best in the country, 
 and that no scientific or historical association will be housed in 
 more sumptuous quarters. 
 
 It will be in keeping with the fine group of buildings which 
 will adorn this quadrangle — a site which has been pronounced 
 the finest in New England next to Copley Square — comprising 
 the Capitol, the State Library, the Federal Court House and 
 Post-ofiice, the City Hall, and others of scarcely less preten- 
 sions — and in historical significance and function this will not 
 be inferior to any one of these stately edifices. 
 
 Such will be the building, and it is to be raised here in a 
 State not as yet replete with monuments of history or artistic 
 genius — but in which a brave beginning is being made. 
 This Society has already done and is now doing much to illus- 
 trate and immortalize the achievements of the State, and the 
 civic and military renown of her sons. 
 
 The Society may, I think, justly claim to have been the 
 center and mainspring of the intellectual movement in our 
 State, which in the last half century has manifested itself in 
 the growth of the historic spirit, and the cultivation of taste 
 in literary, pictorial and monumental art. 
 
 The New Historical Hampshire Society was formed nearly 
 a century ago. At the beginning and all along the course 
 of its history, our leading intellects in the learned profes- 
 sions and every department of knowledge have evinced their 
 interest in it and its objects. I need not enumerate them. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 21 
 
 The great names of Jeremiah Mason, Levi Woodbury, Jere- 
 miah Smith, Ichabod Bartlett, William Plumer, Franklin 
 Pierce, Joel Parker, Nathan Lord, Ira Perley, Samuel D. Bell, 
 Charles H. Bell, and all our later statesmen, orators and schol- 
 ars have adorned its rolls; and beyond question our present and 
 future leaders of thought, opinion and action will hereafter be 
 identified with it and its activities. 
 
 The Society essentially antedates in work on its chosen lines 
 that of the State Library, our neighbor now so finely housed, 
 which assumed no rank in work of this character till 1866. 
 
 The growth of the Society and its progress in carrying out 
 its purposes were slow for many years. The interest in it 
 was practically local and its maintenance due mainly to the 
 hospitality and public spirit of Concord and Concord people. 
 
 But many studious and inquiring men have cherished it, 
 and industriously wrought for its benefit for eighty-seven 
 years; and in the last forty years a general quickening of inter- 
 est in it has resulted in a great accumulation of valuable 
 property, till today its collections in every branch of knowledge, 
 especially upon historical, antiquarian and genealogical lines 
 are of priceless value. 
 
 Its library, comprising more than 15,000 bound volumes, its 
 pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, autographs, coins, curios, 
 Revolutionary rehcs and historic memorials of many kinds 
 are pronounced by those who are experts in such lore to be 
 unsurpassed by collections of this class in any other State, 
 while its walls are covered with noble portraits, busts, engrav- 
 ings, and objects of historic interest connected with celebrated 
 men and events. 
 
 In the course of time these accumulations long since outgrew 
 our accommodations and the need of a suitable building to 
 house the precious possessions of the Society has long been 
 felt. Some efforts and notable gifts have been made to supply 
 this want; but until very recently no assurance of an adequate 
 fund to meet the wants of the Society for the present and the 
 century to come has been found. 
 
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 It is a felicity in which we rejoice at the present hour that 
 most opportunely a man has appeared who has the insight to 
 discern the needs of this Society, the public spirit to appreciate 
 and the munificence to supply them. 
 
 We are here today by the grace and generosity of Mr. 
 Edward Tuck, still, let us be thankful, a citizen of New Hamp- 
 sliire and not as yet expatriated, though a dweller in the French 
 capital. 
 
 Mr. Tuck is a son of our State, the scion of a distinguished 
 father, highly honored and still well remembered by us, and 
 a graduate of our own college. He has been a resident of Paris 
 for many years, where his great business capacity has rendered 
 him able to make the munificent gift which this building 
 implies. 
 
 Mr. Tuck has prospered and "made good" in the world 
 and makes tliis offering in token of his loyalty and affection 
 for his native State and the honored ancestor whose name he 
 has given to his greatest endowment. 
 
 Such are the public works wliich he is projecting in our midst, 
 the forms of beauty and utility which he is raising, at Dart- 
 mouth College, here at the capital and in his native town, for 
 enlarging the instrumentalities and broadening the scope of 
 our culture and civilization — such are his contributions to the 
 learning, and the enlightenment and refinement of the genera- 
 tions to come, that we may have a sure forecast that in travers- 
 ing our State our successors in citizenship shall find everywhere 
 proofs that a man of splendid public spirit, of insight and 
 liberality, has lived, and left great memorials for the elevation 
 of men. That inscription in the choir of St. Paul's Cathe- 
 dral will as justly be apphcable to him as it originally was to 
 Sir Christopher Wren, Si monumentum requiris, circumspice, 
 "if you ask for his monument, look around you." 
 
 If I may venture to conjecture the purpose of Mr. Tuck in 
 making to us this princely benefaction, I believe it is not for 
 what our Society has done, or is specially now doing, that he 
 is thus distinguishing us by his favor; nor is it of any local or 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 23 
 
 temporary purport, or for the adornment or aggrandizement of 
 this capital, worthy, interesting and beautiful as it is. 
 
 But if I rightly conceive the views of Mr. Tuck, prefigured 
 clearly by liis cosmopolitan spirit, in what he has done at Dart- 
 mouth College and elsewhere, his design is co-extensive with 
 the State and Nation — particularly the convenient, large unit 
 of the State — the State that gave him birth, and to which his 
 heart and mind are ever returning in love and service. His 
 thought and his gift are of and to the State, and not specially 
 to its capital city. 
 
 He conceives of this as a great repository, whose hbrary 
 and whose treasures of hterature and art will make it the resort 
 of scholars and men of letters of the entire State; where inves- 
 tigation and research of every kind may be pursued under the 
 best possible advantages, and statesman, lawyer, historian, 
 scholar and philosopher, can find all that science and art have 
 gained for his use, his culture and his instruction. 
 
 He sees the great capabihties of such an association of our 
 most cultured and advanced thinkers and workers, and he 
 wishes to create here a headquarters of civilization in the 
 future — to make this Society of ours the New Hampshire 
 center and rallying point of the best thought and work of the 
 next ages. 
 
 I believe the New Hampshire Historical Society will rise to 
 the full measure and height of tliis great opportunity. Con- 
 scious of its high responsibility and of a new era opening in its 
 hfe by these new facihties and means of progress it will be 
 inspired to a zealous co-operation with the just expectations of 
 Mr. Tuck and will make the institution endowed with this 
 noble home a laboratory for intellectual work of the highest 
 character. Already much has been done in this direction and 
 I am sure that no community is richer than this in accomplished 
 results of a serious and permanent nature inwrought with the 
 very fabric of society in law, in religion, in legislation, in all 
 the arts and sciences which adorn, dignify and elevate human 
 life. At this merely preliminary stage of the work it is not 
 
24 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 
 
 the time to enter upon any elaborate discussion of the Society 
 or of this building. At a later day in more formal and stated 
 discourse our history, our achievements, our aims and espe- 
 cially our obligations to our benefactors will be more carefully 
 given to the world. 
 
 I merely outline this great enterprise today and call the 
 citizenship of New Hampshire and of the Republic of Letters 
 to witness the breadth of this conception of our mission — to 
 cherish and disseminate sound learning, to encourage inde- 
 pendent thought, to keep an open door and to be hospitable 
 to all free inquiry — and especially do we design to investigate 
 in the fullest and most searching manner the origin of this 
 noble State of ours, of which we are all proud to be citizens, 
 and to make a comprehensive and logical collection of all the 
 authentic sources of our history and bring into scientific body 
 and statement all that can be known of a State which yields 
 superior rank to no commonwealth in the world. 
 
 These are our hopes and aims, and we cherish the belief 
 that in the collections of the Society which have been gathered 
 in eighty-seven years past, a splendid beginning toward their 
 realization has been made. Our library is already an invalu- 
 able nucleus of what we expect to be ultimately a vast store- 
 house of the facts of our past, of the work accomplished by our 
 ancestors in peace and in war. We shall await with such 
 patience as we can command the raising of these walls and 
 when the cap-stone has been placed, as we place the corner 
 stone at this hour, those of us who survive to that not very 
 distant day will meet here again to hear a characterization in a 
 more elaborate and ambitious style of the great designs of our 
 benefactor and the working out of the stupendous plans of 
 the Divine Mind which permeates the universe in giving us such 
 men and such fruits of their labor and their lives. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 25 
 
 ADDRESS BY HENRY B. QUINBY, GOVERNOR OF 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE 
 
 To achieve the security of the archives of our State for gen- 
 erations to come will be to render a service which cannot well 
 be overestimated and this has been the task chosen by one of 
 New Hampshire's generous sons, Mr. Edward Tuck, and to him, 
 the thanks of a grateful people will be given for the gift of the 
 magnificent edifice to be erected here which will be an endur- 
 ing memorial of his public spirit and love of home and country. 
 
 No structure can be too beautiful or too costly to be a fitting 
 casket to contain the treasures of New Hampshire's splendid 
 history. 
 
 Within this shrine of imperishable granite will be safely de- 
 posited the priceless records and other tangible evidences of 
 New Hampshire's share in the founding and in the building of 
 our Nation. 
 
 Here, too, as the years roll by, will be gathered tokens of the 
 great battle for the preservation of our Union, that the memory 
 of our patriots may never die — and relics of the war with 
 Spain which has banished forever from our continent the last 
 vestige of Spanish rule. 
 
 Hither will our citizens journey to contemplate this building 
 and its precious contents. Before us and our descendants they 
 will bring vividly to mind the stories of Stark at Bennington, 
 who began the breaking of the chain which bound us to Great 
 Britain; Sullivan who provided ammunition for Bunker Hill, 
 and the brave men who followed them to victory and who 
 helped to place this great Republic of ours upon a lasting 
 foundation. 
 
 Here the men and women of New Hampshire can learn as 
 no language can teach them of the accomplishments of their 
 ancestors in the arts of peace and of their heroism in war; in 
 every struggle in which America has been involved for liberty, 
 for justice and for equal rights to man, and may our children 
 
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 and our children's children find inspiration here to emulate the 
 virtues and the patriotism of their fathers. 
 
 Fellow citizens, I congratulate you and our State upon the 
 great achievements which have placed New Hampshire, 
 although comparatively small in area, among the greatest of 
 the states of our Union in influence and importance, and well 
 may we all rejoice in this day which sees laid the corner stone 
 of this haven of safety for those things which we hold so dear 
 that generations yet unborn, as they behold them may praise 
 God and their ancestors for what they wrought. 
 
 GREETING FROM MR. TUCK 
 
 Benjamin A. Kimball, chairman of the Building Committee, 
 read this interesting communication: 
 
 Paris, June 9, 1909. 
 Hon. Benjamin A. Kimball, Chairman Building Com,miUee Neio Hamp- 
 shire Historical Society, Concord, N. H. 
 It is my hope that the Historical Society Building, of which the corner 
 stone is being laid so auspiciously today, may be perfectly adapted to 
 its purpose, and by its architectural beauty, afford perpetual satisfaction 
 and joy to the Society itself and be a source of pleasure and pride to the 
 people of the Capital City and of the State of New Hampshire. 
 
 Edward Tuck. 
 
 THE LAYING OF THE STONE 
 
 As the corner stone was dropped easily and gently on its bed, Mr. Kimball continued: 
 
 And now in behalf of Edward Tuck I declare this corner 
 stone well and didy laid. 
 
 May this building of granite, marble, steel and bronze exist 
 forever. 
 
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 CONCLUDING CEREMONIES 
 
 In the laying of the corner stone, a trowel of solid silver, with 
 handle of ebony, made at the works of the William B. Durgin 
 Silverware Company, was used by Mr. Kimball, chairman of 
 the Building Committee, the blade of which was inscribed 
 with his closing words. 
 
 The implements were received from Mr. Kimball by Edward 
 F. Minor of Worcester, Mass., president of the Central Con- 
 struction Company, the general contractors for the building, 
 who was accompanied by William Shumway, the vice-president 
 of the company, also of Worcester. The school children then 
 sang a hymn written by Rev. Daniel C. Roberts, D.D., a 
 former president of the Society, which closed the ceremony. 
 
 God of our fathers. Whose almighty hand 
 Leads forth in beauty all the starry band 
 Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies. 
 Our grateful songs before Thy throne arise. 
 
 Thy love divine hath led us in the past. 
 In this free land by Thee our lot is cast; 
 Be Thou our ruler, guardian, guide and stay, 
 Thy word our law. Thy paths our chosen way. 
 
 From war's alarms, from deadly pestilence, 
 Be Thy strong arm our ever sure defense; 
 Thy true religion in our hearts increase, 
 Thy bounteous goodness nourish us in peace. 
 
 Refresh Thy people on their toilsome way. 
 Lead us from night to never-ending day; 
 Fill all our lives with love and grace divine, 
 And glory, laud and praise be ever Thine. 
 
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THE NEW BUILDING 
 
 TWO years and a half separated the laying of the corner 
 stone and the day of dedication. The superintendent 
 acting for the building committee was Timothy P. 
 SuHivan of Concord, who had large experience in construction 
 work, particularly of granite. Under Mr. Sullivan's constant 
 supervision the plans and specifications were faithfully carried 
 out. The details embodied in this beautiful structure were 
 not only new in Concord, but they had seldom been seen in 
 American architecture. Month after month this interesting 
 construction went on, gradually and gracefully unfolding the 
 exquisite conceptions of the architect, Guy Lowell. In the 
 words of Mr. Lowell: 
 
 "The New Hampshire Historical Society Building has been 
 given an unusually appropriate architectural design. The 
 building, primarily a library in character, an athenaeum in 
 fact, also expresses the dignity of a home for art, and a meet- 
 ing place for lectures and for research. 
 
 "First of all there is a quality of permanence, without and 
 within the structure, in the restrained beauty and dignity of 
 the design, the materials, and the decorative treatment. 
 The building is Greek in spirit and in detail. It is not archaic, 
 however, neither does it express any passing style nor modern 
 fancy. It is entirely appropriate for its uses, and an inspira- 
 tion to those who know the building and to those who avail 
 themselves of the opportunities it affords. 
 
 "The elements, fire, and even time itself cannot harm the 
 work. The exterior is of granite, cut from Rattlesnake Hill 
 in the Capital City. Daniel Chester French, in the monu- 
 mental sculpture over the grand entrance, carved from the 
 same granite, tells the story of ancient and modern research 
 
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 which the Society and the structure typify. The sculpture, 
 conceived and executed in the same spirit, fulfills and crowns 
 the beauty and dignity of the whole. 
 
 "Massive bronze grilles frame this entrance. The central 
 rotunda is built of Old Convent Grey Sienna marble, a mate- 
 rial of great beauty, quarried by monks from the only quarry 
 in the world of this material. The arches and vaults, 
 even the ceiling, are of this marble. The whole rotunda 
 design is impressive in its simplicity. 
 
 "The great staircase leading to the stack room and to the 
 exhibition hall is of Hauteville marble, adorned with railings 
 and lamp standards of bronze. The rotunda on this story 
 is constructed throughout in Caen stone. 
 
 "The entire west wing of the building is devoted to the 
 library of the Society, and is complete in every requirement. 
 The main reading room is large, light, and of very pleasing 
 proportions and detail. The books are in bronze cases ar- 
 ranged according to the alcove system. Over the fireplace in 
 this room, is the contributors tablet of white marble, where, 
 in bronze letters, are inscribed the names of those who have 
 given distinguished study to historical research, and also the 
 names of men and women who have contributed toward the 
 purchase of the land and the maintenance of the building. 
 
 "In the basement are the newspaper room and the cata- 
 loguing department, and adjoining the reading room are rooms 
 for the librarian and for the trustees. 
 
 "At the right in the rotunda is the lecture room, with marble 
 door panels and platform with mahogany chairs while over- 
 head is the large, top lighted, brick paved exhibition room. On 
 this floor are several apartments designed for special exhibi- 
 tions and loan collections. 
 
 "The electric fixtures, all especially designed, in keeping with 
 the character of the building, are of bronze. The furnishings 
 are of mahogany designed in harmony with all else, and making 
 complete a building admirable in every detail." 
 
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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 31 
 
 placed a beautiful tablet, the gift of Benjamin A. Kimball, 
 dedicated to Edward Tuck in commemoration of his gener- 
 osity to the Society. This tablet exhibits workmanship of 
 the finest taste and skill; its composition is of bronze enriched 
 with dark and antique color. The design represents an aged 
 student recording history, having on his right the lamp of 
 knowledge and a palm branch and on his left an hour glass 
 and an olive branch. 
 
 In the lower rotunda to the right and to the left of the 
 entrance are two semi-circular niches each containing a 
 bronze bust; while directly overhead facing the staircase 
 are two similar niches each with its distinguished tenant. 
 
 Nowhere, perhaps, could a quartette of this character 
 touch the visitor more deeply and rouse in him an apprecia- 
 tion of family achievements mingled with sentiments of patri- 
 otic gratitude. And all this amid surroundings unusually 
 rare and beautiful. 
 
 On the right as one enters the splendid rotunda is a bronze 
 bust of Amos Tuck, while opposite on the left is a similar bust 
 of his son, Edward, the donor of the building. Amos Tuck, 
 although a native of Maine, was a life-long citizen of New 
 Hampshire and a man of much distinction. He was one of 
 the original Free Soil Democrats, leaving the party because of 
 its policy respecting slavery and becoming a founder of the 
 Republican party whose name he suggested as early as 1853. 
 Six years in Congress and several terms in the State Legislature 
 comprised his legislative career, but his political influence 
 continued to the end of his life. 
 
 The bust of Edward Tuck, the benefactor of this Society, 
 occupies a place at the left of the entrance. Unlike his father, 
 Mr. Tuck has never taken an active part in politics, but few 
 men know our politics better or possess a keener insight into 
 their trend and effect. Born in Exeter, August 25th, 1842, 
 studying at Phillips Academy and entering Dartmouth as a 
 sophomore in 1859, he was graduated three years later. Al- 
 though beginning the study of law in his father's office, his 
 
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 practical knowledge of French soon prompted him to take 
 an examination with a view to the consular service and having 
 passed it successfully, he was sent to the consulate at Paris where 
 within a few months he succeeded to the vice-consu'ship. 
 But official preferment soon gave way to business, conse- 
 quently he left the service to enter the well-known banking 
 house of John Munroe and Co., at Paris. Few years passed 
 before Mr. Tuck became a member of the firm, remaining 
 until the early eighties when he finally retired from active 
 business pursuits. 
 
 The character of Mr. Tuck is seen in his great public bene- 
 factions — and no man knows of his many private gifts. To 
 Dartmouth College he has given large sums all directed to 
 practical ends. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Tuck married Miss Stell who has been an active 
 adviser and worker in the wise and liberal philanthropy of 
 her husband. 
 
 Two marble busts in the niches of the upper rotunda are 
 the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Tuck. One is the bust of William 
 Shorter Stell, father of Mrs. Tuck, the other a bust of Benjamin 
 Franklin. Mr. Stell was born in Philadelphia in 1800 and 
 while a young man he went to Manchester, England, where he 
 became a well-known and successful merchant. He retired 
 from commercial life in 1850 and died in London in 1863. 
 An ardent and outspoken Union man during our Civil War, 
 and almost in daily conflict with old English friends he abated 
 no opinion nor left unspoken his hostility to the Confederacy. 
 Mr. Stell was an intimate friend of John Bright, Richard 
 Cobden, George Peabody, Charles Francis Adams, Junius S. 
 Morgan., and to many distinguished countrymen traveling in 
 England he showed generous hospitality. 
 
 The fine bust of Benjamin Franklin is supposed to be the 
 work of CaflBeri, and was made from the living model. 
 
 Between these busts is a copj' in plaster of Houdon's bust 
 of Lafayette, the original of which stands over the entrance 
 to the Assembly Hall at Versailles. 
 
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 This is a gift to the Society by Benjamin A. Kimball. 
 
 The building, simple in its magnificence, is richly adorned 
 by a group of splendid statuary occupying a prominent place 
 over the ornate and impressive entrance. The sculptor is 
 Daniel C. French, a native of Exeter. 
 
 The group consists of two figures, male and female, kneeling, 
 on either side of a shield bearing the seal of the Historical 
 Society and surmounted by an ornamental finial of which the 
 chief feature is an owl, as the symbol of Wisdom. The aged 
 female figure on the right represents Ancient History. She 
 holds in her right hand a skull symbolizing the dead past and 
 is studying a tablet upon which her left hand rests, — the 
 tablet representing the records of the past. 
 
 The figure of a youth on the left represents Modern History 
 as the genius of Discovery. His right hand rests on a globe 
 while he studies a scroll which rests on his knee. 
 
 The Seal which appears on the shield between the two 
 figures has in its center an open book with a torch, represent- 
 ing Learning and the transmission of it; above is the radiation 
 of Light, and below is a skull of an Indian with the feathered 
 head-dress of the New Hampshire Indians. Branches of the 
 apple and the pine surround the skull as symbols of cultiva- 
 tion and wildness, and an Indian arrow-head appears below. 
 
 The building is 150 feet in length and 90 feet in width includ- 
 ing the massive pavilions. Constructed of ten cut Concord 
 granite, Greek in design and spirit, with details of the Doric 
 order, situated on a site bounded by State, Park and Green 
 Streets with the State House, Federal Building, State Library 
 and the City Hall close at hand, the New Hampshire Historical 
 Society, through the generosity of its benefactor, possesses a 
 perfect and complete structure, at once attractively beautiful 
 both within and without. Entering the massive bronze doors, 
 the beauty and excellence of design are at once seen. The 
 circular walls of Convent Grey Sienna marble, with arches and 
 vaults of the same material, with spacious halls leading to 
 the reading room and to the lecture room, give an effect of 
 singular dignity in art and design. 
 
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THE DEDICATION 
 
 THURSDAY, the 23d of November, 1911, was the day 
 appointed for the formal dedication. The weather 
 was mild and propitious and the exercises and ban- 
 quet were carried through with gratifying success. At eleven 
 o'clock the members and the invited guests assembled at the 
 State House, where they were received and welcomed in the 
 Council Chamber by Governor Bass and Mr. and Mrs. Tuck. 
 The Governor's staff, in full uniform, with their ladies, also 
 assisted at the reception. An hour later, one of the most 
 distinguished companies ever seen in New Hampshire, num- 
 bering between five and six hundred, under the marshal- 
 ship of Frank W. Hackett of New Castle, moved from the 
 State House across State Street to the beautiful home of the 
 Society, now opened for the first time. 
 
 ADDRESS OF EDWARD TUCK 
 
 Called to order by Mr. Hackett the exercises of dedication were at once begun. 
 Daniel Hall, President of the Society, introduced Benjamin A. Kimball, Chairman 
 of the Building Committee, who from the first had been the adviser of Mr. Tuck 
 as well as a friend of many years. Mr. Kimball formally announced to Mr. Tuck 
 the completion of the building, in these words: 
 
 "The committee to whom has been entrusted the construction of this building, 
 has conformed to your wishes in its erection and now takes pleasure in delivering to 
 you the key." 
 
 Mr. Tuck accepted the report of the Chairman of the Building Committee in the 
 following address: 
 
 It is my part in the ceremonies of today formally to present 
 this building to the New Hampshire Historical Society, 
 preparatory to its official dedication. It is fitting that I 
 should make the presentation through you, for having from 
 the inception of our plans the benefit of your superior judgment 
 
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 in all matters pertaining to construction, of your artistic 
 taste, your vigilant watchfulness throughout the work, and 
 your public spirit in devoting to it your valuable time, I 
 decided to provide for the erection of something more monu- 
 mental and ornate than a simple library building. It is due 
 to you, also, that for its plan and construction we secured 
 the services of the distinguished architect, Mr. Guy Lowell, 
 who is with us today and whose finished work we now admire. 
 
 The satisfaction I have in giving to the Society a permanent 
 home in which its historical treasure may find all the security 
 that human effort can ensure, is twofold. I am pleased to 
 be able to present to the Society a building, the urgent need 
 of which has existed for so many years, one that it will pos- 
 sess in its own right and that will be worthy of what is believed 
 to be one of the most valuable historical libraries in the 
 United States. It is an even greater pleasure to have this 
 opportunity to testify to my loyalty to my native State by 
 causing to be built in its capital city and of its own imperish- 
 able granite, a structure which I have intended should be, 
 in its perfection of artistic design and of material execution, 
 a source of gratification and pride for all time to the people 
 of New Hampshire. In the monumental sculpture over the 
 portal of the building we have the grandest specimen of the 
 artistic work of a son of our own State, one of America's most 
 celebrated sculptors— Daniel Chester French. 
 
 There are in the State of New Hampshire two institutions 
 of which we, the sons of the State, have just reason to be 
 especially proud: Dartmouth College and the Historical 
 Society. First and chief is Dartmouth College, which, 
 thanks to the liberal annual appropriation now made by the 
 people of the State as represented by their Legislature, and 
 to private gifts, has entered upon a new period of accomplish- 
 ment and fame under the able administrations of President 
 Tucker and of President Nichols. I trust that old Dart- 
 mouth may ever endure as a perfect example of a typical 
 New England college, and that it may acquire an increasing 
 

 
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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 37 
 
 celebrity, not so much for the number of its graduates as for 
 the high quality and efficiency of the education it bestows, 
 and for the genuinely democratic spirit with which its students 
 are imbued. 
 
 It is my expectation, ^Ir. Chairman, that the Historical 
 Society, in its home which we are dedicating today, will take on 
 new life and usefulness, that an awakened interest in it through- 
 out the State will be made manifest by an increasing member- 
 ship, and that its precious possessions will be largely added to 
 now that their security and preservation are permanently 
 assured. I hope that the building itself will have in the 
 future a high educational value to those students and lovers 
 of art, from our own State and elsewhere, who may be unable 
 to see and to study the best examples of ancient and modern 
 architectural beauty in foreign countries. I hope, too, that 
 the unique and invaluable library of the Society, in the spa- 
 cious accommodation and orderly arrangement which this 
 building affords, will become available for reference not only 
 to historical students from New Hampshire, but to those who 
 may come to consult it from all parts of the United States, 
 and that the glory and renown of the Society throughout 
 the country will be as enduring in the generations yet to come 
 as will be these granite and marble walls. With full con- 
 fidence, Mr. Chairman, that these anticipations will be abund- 
 antly realized, I now present to the Society the building and 
 hand to you its key. 
 
 TRANSFER OF THE BUILDING TO THE SOCIETY 
 
 Mr. Kimball then presented the building to the Society, 
 and unveiled an elaborate bronze tablet on the wall of the ro- 
 tunda with the inscription in relievo.^ 
 
 In receiving the key Mr. Kimball said: 
 
 In the presentation of the key of this building by the hand 
 of the donor, we find in the act as well as in the words which 
 
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38 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 accompany it, a recognition of the excellence of the work done 
 by the architect, the sculptor, the superintendent, artisans 
 and contractors who have faithfully co-operated with us in 
 its erection. 
 
 In receiving the key of this building we express the hope 
 that the memory of Edward Tuck may be as enduring as this 
 magnificent edifice he has now presented to us. 
 
 In order to perpetuate our appreciation of his gift, I have 
 caused to be placed upon this wall a tablet of bronze as a 
 testimonial of our gratitude to the donor, and commemora- 
 tive of the greatest event in the history of our Society. 
 
 Mr. President, it now gives me pleasure to present to you 
 the key of New Hampshire's Temple of History. 
 
 ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT DANIEL HALL 
 
 In the name and behalf of this Society, as its President, 
 I receive this key, in token of the possession and ownership 
 of this beautiful building, to be hereafter devoted to the uses 
 of the Society, and to the promotion of historical culture in 
 our State. 
 
 This corner stone was laid on the 9th of June, 1909, and 
 without haste, but without pause, the work of architect, 
 contractor and artisan has been pressed forward with such 
 vigor that the building stands before us today substantially 
 perfect in exterior and interior decoration, and complete in 
 every detail, giving us, what we have never had before, 
 abundant accommodations for cabinets, stacks and historic 
 memorials, which we are anxious to arrange, protect and 
 preserve. 
 
 The time available at this moment forbids any lengthy 
 recital of the history of the Society, and its dwelling places 
 hitherto. It is sufficient to say that, though organized nearly a 
 century ago, the Society has never, till now, had a dwelling place 
 adequate to its needs. Moving from one temporary abode to 
 another, during that period, it has, however, been under the 
 
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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 39 
 
 constant guidance and patronage of the intellectual leaders 
 of our State, has been cherished with a becoming State pride, 
 and has maintained a foremost rank among the learned soci- 
 eties and agencies of the time. Through all vicissitudes its 
 library has steadily increased, till now we have nearly 20,000 
 bound volumes, and our pamphlets, manuscripts, files of news- 
 papers, and cabinets of antiquities, autographs, photographs, 
 coins, portraits, colonial, revolutionary and other relics, are 
 very numerous and of priceless value. There are in our 
 archives many precious letters and mementoes of Webster, 
 Lincoln and other historical characters. To these will soon 
 be added, now that we have a place for their shelter and 
 orderly arrangement, many objects of historic and artistic in- 
 terest which will make a collection of inestimable value, 
 and afford unrivaled facilities for research, and the historical 
 inquiries for which the Society exists. This development of 
 its function and enlargement of its facilities should and will, 
 we are confident, make this building the resort of scholars, 
 legislators, antiquarians, historians, — a place for investiga- 
 tion "in the still air of delightful studies," and for the exten- 
 sion, and particularly the diffusion of knowledge and sound 
 culture, especially in that field to which it is dedicated by its 
 constitution, — "to discover, secure, and preserve whatever 
 may relate to the natural, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical 
 history of the United States in general, and of this State in 
 particular." 
 
 Mr. Tuck has well spoken of the great need we have felt 
 for many years of a building like this for the housing of what 
 he has justly termed "one of the most valuable historical 
 libraries in the United States." It was this need to which 
 his generous spirit has responded. 
 
 When speaking of this work and its inception, I ought not 
 and will not forget to mention the obligations of the Society 
 and the State to one of my predecessors in this office, the Hon. 
 William C. Todd, of Atkinson, who, I believe Mr. Tuck will 
 bear me out in saying, was the first person to bring this great 
 
40 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 benefaction to his attention. Mr. Todd was a most enlight- 
 ened and Hberal-minded man, and a life-long and zealous 
 friend of this Society. He endowed it with valuable gifts 
 of money and wise counsel, but his crowning service to us 
 was this suggestion to Mr. Tuck which first kindled his interest 
 in the Society. Mr. Todd died in 1903, but his word had not 
 fallen upon stony ground. It fructified, and the result is 
 seen before us in this beautiful structure, ornate and classical 
 in design, but serviceable in the highest degree, and admirably 
 adapted to all our wants. 
 
 Mr. Todd's name has been fittingly engraved on the endur- 
 ing bronze of yonder tablet, and his memory will not perish. 
 
 This tribute to Mr. Todd detracts nothing from the credit 
 due to our benefactor; for it was your mind, Mr. Tuck, which 
 conceived this noble structure; your generosity, guidance and 
 counsel which have presided over its erection and completion. 
 The New Hampshire Historical Society and the citizens of 
 the State owe you a debt of gratitude which mere words 
 have no power to express or repay. 
 
 But, in addition to our own appreciation of this benefaction, 
 you may, and surely will, take to yourself the high satisfaction, in 
 your own modest phrase, of "giving to the Society a permanent 
 home in which its historical treasures may find all the security 
 that human effort can ensure," and of testifying in magnificent 
 fashion to your loyalty to your native State, by "causing to be 
 built in its capital city, and of its own imperishable granite, a 
 structure which you have intended should be in its perfection 
 of artistic design, and of material execution, a source of gratifi- 
 cation and pride for all time to the people of New Hampshire." 
 
 You may be assured, sir, that you have fully accomplished 
 your purpose, and have done more, doubtless, than you had 
 intended; for, by these strong walls, exquisite carvings and 
 shapely columns, rising so harmoniously into the ordered 
 grace and dignity which make this edifice "a thing of beauty 
 and a joy forever" you have safely committed your own 
 "name and memory to the next ages." 
 

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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 41 
 
 Although you have not passed your life entirely in our visi- 
 ble presence, but have seen and dwelt, much in other lands, 
 as a citizen of the world, we are thankful that unlike some 
 others, you have not become expatriated, but that you left 
 your heart in New Hampshire, when you went abroad; and 
 we who have kept our feet here on the granite rocks, vie 
 with you today in devotion to the old State of your nativity — 
 one of the "Old Thirteen" — whose annals are crowded with 
 memorable heroic and romantic incidents — one of the oldest of 
 American commonwealths, whose three centuries of history 
 have been filled with honor and heroism from the beginning — 
 through the early colonial days — through the fiery trials of 
 the Revolution, and the formation of the Constitution, "the 
 greatest work ever struck off at white heat, by the mind and 
 purpose of man" — and through the unhappy civil strife which 
 finally settled our frame of government and consolidated the 
 Union. While she has not kept her place and rank among the 
 States in point of population, wealth and political importance, 
 in all the great elements of civilization, she is not behind any 
 of them today; but in education, in legislation, in liberal, 
 political, social and religious thought and institutions, she 
 is in the van of advance, and not inferior to the best states 
 in the world. 
 
 Such is the monumental story of New Hampshire which 
 we wish to gather together, to preserve and give to the world, 
 and to continue and honor by our emulation. 
 
 We join with you, sir, in the "expectation" which you have 
 so felicitously expressed, that "the Historical Society, in the 
 home which we are dedicating today, will take on new life and 
 usefulness, that an awakened interest in it throughout the 
 State will be made manifest by an increasing membership, 
 and that its precious possessions will be largely added to, 
 now that their security and preservation are permanently 
 assured; and that the glory and renown of the Society will be 
 as enduring in the generations yet to come as will be these 
 granite and marble walls." 
 
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 EXERCISES IN THE LECTURE ROOM 
 
 The members of the Society and invited guests then pro- 
 ceeded to the lecture room at the east end of the library, which 
 was soon filled to overflowing, a still larger number being 
 unable to gain admission. 
 
 Upon the platform were the President of the Society, Mr. 
 Edward Tuck, ex-President William J. Tucker of Dartmouth 
 College, and Hon. Samuel W. McCall, a representative in 
 Congress from Massachusetts. The President said: 
 
 We will now proceed with the dedicatory services of this 
 occasion. I hold in my hand a gavel which has just been re- 
 ceived from the distant State of Oregon. It was sent to us by 
 the Oregon Historical Society, organized in 1898, with the 
 request, with which we gladly comply, that it be used in calling 
 our Society to order today. This gavel is most elaborately 
 designed and made of ten varieties of native woods selected 
 for their historical interest, and is a piece of exquisite work- 
 manship. It is accompanied by a careful and detailed account 
 of each piece of wood used in making it, and its history and 
 historical significance, and also by a cordial and touching 
 letter, with allusions to natives of New Hampshire who had 
 a part in the early settlement of Oregon. 
 
 This is a beautiful present, and a most thoughtful and op- 
 portune reminder of the solidarity of New Hampshire people — 
 that "once a New Hampshire man, always a New Hampshire 
 man" — and of the community of interest between us and our 
 sister society far off on our Pacific coast. 
 
 In itself this gavel is worthy of a careful study on many 
 accounts, and also as a token of the participation by one of 
 the latest of American commonwealths in the highest culture 
 of the land. 
 
 W^e accept the gift with thanks, and will treasure it among 
 our chiefest historical possessions. We may be permitted to 
 hope that our friends in Oregon will not apply to it their 
 favorite principle of the "Recall," but will allow us to keep 
 
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 and cherish it among our precious souvenirs of this important 
 occasion. 
 
 I esteem it a signal honor that it devolves upon me to inaug- 
 urate the first exercises of this Society in our own house — with 
 which we have become endowed within the last hour by the 
 munificence of a son of New Hampshire, of whom we are 
 proud, and to whom our gratitude for this beautiful and 
 substantial gift will always be felt and acknowledged. 
 
 Mr. Tuck's princely liberality has been manifested by even 
 greater gifts bestowed upon other institutions, localities and 
 enterprises in his native State; but his bounty is equaled by 
 his modesty, and he wishes to be excused from speaking at 
 this time. He is, however, present with us, and I am glad 
 to have you see him, as he is glad to see you. 
 
 ADDRESS OF DR. WILLIAM J. TUCKER 
 
 The President introduced Dr. Tucker as follows: "One honored name and 
 personality are so inseparably identified with our highest public activities and all that 
 is best in New Hampshire — our efforts for progress, and for betterment in every 
 direction in art, in education, in all works of civic pride, that an occasion of this 
 sort would seem to lack something of its due setting and illustration, if it were not 
 graced by the presence and participation of the first citizen of New Hampshire. We 
 all rejoice that overcoming by his will the ill health under which he has been suffering 
 in these later days, he is able to give us the satisfaction of his presence at this time; 
 and as a special personal friend of Mr. Tuck it gives me the greatest pleasure to 
 present to you the Rev. Dr. William J. Tucker, cx-President of Dartmouth 
 College.'' Owing to the condition of Doctor Tucker's health he was not able to 
 deliver this address in person. It was read by General F. S. Streeter. 
 
 In speaking at the dedication of the State Library building 
 I took occasion, as I recall, to dwell at some length upon the 
 erection of that building as an illustration of "the revival of 
 civic pride in the commonwealth." The State, though then 
 acting in its corporate capacity and through its authorized 
 representatives, really acted in response to public sentiment. 
 It was no longer fit, in the judgment of our more thoughtful 
 and responsible citizens, that the State should remain without 
 some visible and worthy expression of its concern for those 
 more advanced civic interests which naturally center in a 
 state library. 
 
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 In the erection of this building we have an equally gratifying 
 illustration of the more individual and personal ways in which 
 we are allowed to serve the commonwealth. I say, in which 
 we are allowed to act thus, for this more personal way of 
 service is a part of the original New England idea and method 
 of serving the state. The original New England conception 
 of citizenship left very much room for the free play of public 
 spirit. It created a race of public-spirited in distinction from 
 private-spirited citizens. It entrusted to men so trained the 
 support of the higher part of education, the advancement of 
 industry and the arts, and the diffusion of religion not only 
 in its inherited forms but also in new applications to the social 
 order. It set up everywhere within our borders signs and 
 testimonials pointing to the working of the principle. Such 
 were the colleges, most of the libraries and museums, the 
 churches, and not a few of the homes of business and of 
 industry. 
 
 True, this original idea of citizenship was not carried over 
 completely into the newer states which New England men 
 built in the West. The newer states, developed under New 
 England influence, assumed more functions and took larger 
 control of public interests, than the original states had then, 
 or have since, seen fit to assume or undertake. But there is 
 plainly discernible, I think, throughout the Northwest a grow- 
 ing desire and purpose to recover and reestablish this somewhat 
 neglected principle. Even the state universities are begin- 
 ning to make their appeal for individual benefactions, not 
 only for the money needed, but for the spirit which is more 
 needed. The principle is certainly vital and germinant even 
 when overshadowed by other civic principles. We are all 
 coming to learn, some for the first time and some over again, 
 that the state, that institutions of every sort, must have that 
 kind of loyalty which is allowed to work in personal ways and 
 with personal distinction. Nothing, therefore, could be more 
 timely than that now and here, within this group of civic 
 buildings representing the municipality, the state, and the 
 
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 federal government, there should arise this building represent- 
 ing the more personal aspect of citizenship. 
 
 We honor today, as always when we recall the record of the 
 New Hampshire Historical Society, the names of its founders 
 and faithful supporters — names of very great significance to 
 our State in other connections ; but the distinction of the hour 
 must fall, whether he will or not, upon our friend and guest 
 who has given us in this building such an exemplification of 
 the principle to which I have referred. I do not know how to 
 discriminate, so far as the actual motive to this generous act 
 is concerned, between the obligation to do such a thing which 
 came upon him by inheritance, and the love of doing such 
 things which has been developed by practice. No like instance 
 occurs to me in which father and son have been so much at 
 one in the purpose of their lives, and at the same time so 
 successful in expressing this purpose in such different ways, as 
 appears in the public careers of Amos and Edward Tuck. 
 Amos Tuck gave to this State and to the country the rare 
 personal gift of loyalty to conviction — a gift which contributed 
 powerfully to the redemption of the State of New Hampshire 
 from the political domination of the slave power, and ulti- 
 mately to the redemption of the nation from the grasp of the 
 same power. It was the most timely gift which any man at 
 that time had in his power to bestow. When Amos Tuck 
 as a young man broke from his party in his support of John 
 P. Hale, and called a convention of independent men, he led 
 the way, in this locality, into that great national movement 
 which was to change the future of the country. The same 
 principle of estimating himself according to his relation to the 
 public good, which actuated the father, has manifested itself 
 in the son through the unselfish and far-reaching use of personal 
 possessions. The motive of personal action has been equally 
 sincere. Absence from the country has not dulled the fine 
 sense of loyalty nor have the allurements of social life weakened 
 the strong sense of duty. The gifts of Edward Tuck have 
 always been, so far as I know, of his own motion, never 
 
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 solicited, the result of an intelligent and well-considered pur- 
 pose, doubled at least in value by their timeliness, and evi- 
 dently prompted by the impulse to bear his part in fulfilling 
 the highest obligations and privileges of citizenship. In this 
 last gift, as in those which have gone before, we have, therefore, 
 not simply the occasion for appreciation and gratitude; we 
 have here a striking witness to the value of those rights and 
 privileges which go with the more personal forms of public 
 service, and no less an object lesson and example to all of 
 us who wish that these especial rights and privileges may be 
 perpetuated. 
 

 
 
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THE DEDICATION ADDRESS 
 
 By Samuel W. McCall 
 
 The President introduced Mr. McCall in the following words: 
 
 I now have the honor to present to you as the orator of the day a loyal son of our 
 own Dartmouth College, a distinguished scholar, pubhcist and statesman, the Hon. 
 Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts. 
 
 THE New Hampshire Historical Society is to be congrat- 
 ulated upon this beautiful building, which, through the 
 munificence of Mr. Tuck, is to be its home. All who are 
 interested in the cause of learning will have a thought of grati- 
 tude towards the generous giver. The dedication of so noble a 
 piece of architecture designed for so worthy a purpose forms 
 a notable event in the history of the State. In its solidity and 
 beauty it well typifies that history, the preservation and 
 study of which it is intended to promote. It is fortunate in 
 its location by the side of the State Capitol. There is much 
 to be said in favor of the utility of having a well-regulated 
 historical society planted by the side of every state house in 
 the Union, while one at each corner of the Capitol at Washing- 
 ton would probably be none too many. They would at 
 least serve to remind those charged with the responsibilities 
 of government that there is an historical, if not a theological, 
 hereafter. They might lead our governors and legislators 
 to project themselves a little into the future and regulate 
 their conduct according to the great tests of time rather than 
 by the popular passions of the hour. Our statesmen might 
 look upon themselves with something of the vision of history's 
 passionless eye. It is not too much to hope that this structure 
 may thus serve the double purpose of contributing to exact 
 learning and to the good government of New Hampshire. 
 
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 While the members of this Society may aim to have all 
 learning for their province, I take it that the particular field 
 which it has set aside for itself, is that relating to the history 
 of New Hampshire, to her government, her people, her 
 institutions and, so far as it is dependent upon them, to the 
 history of the Nation and the outside world. This is a rich 
 field and one which it is important carefully to cultivate. If 
 your work shall be supplemented by that of similar institu- 
 tions in the other states of the Union, there is likely to be 
 little of importance in the present or the future of the Nation 
 that will escape the attention of the historian, and many of 
 the secrets of the past will be rescued which otherwise would 
 be destined to perish. 
 
 Professor Shotwell has well defined history as all the phe- 
 nomena of human life and also of the natural world. The 
 history of men acting individually and in their multitudinous 
 relations to each other and of the operations of Nature herself 
 leaves little to be covered in the entire domain of learning 
 and affords a field broad enough to satisfy the most boundless 
 ambition. In a rapidly moving age, filled with changes in 
 methods of living, in architecture, in means of communication 
 and in social and political institutions, the materials of history 
 are found upon every hand. I imagine it is your primary 
 purpose judiciously to select and to systematize and preserve 
 this material, and especially such as would otherwise be in 
 danger of perishing. As to whatever relates to laws you have 
 at your service the admirable collection in the neighboring 
 library of the State. And it may generally be observed as to 
 the records of laws that they are in our time indelibly graven, 
 if not upon stone, yet in a hundred secure places, although 
 this certainty of permanence is in no way a proof of the fitness 
 of some of them to survive except for a purely historical 
 purpose. 
 
 The first process in the writing of history is the collection 
 of the raw material and the ascertainment of fact. The 
 next process lies in the domain of art and is concerned with 
 
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 the artistic presentation of the results of investigation. The 
 art, however, is to an extent restricted and trammeled by the 
 necessity for the unvarnished narration of events. The 
 exact portrayal of the lives of men and of the origin and devel- 
 opment of institutions leaves little room for the employment 
 of the fancy, however much that faculty may be stimulated 
 by the process. In proportion as the historian colors his 
 facts he ceases to be an historian. He must banish the illu- 
 sions which the imagination delights to chase. It is enter- 
 taining to read an historical romance in which some brilliant 
 master draws upon his imagination for his material, and, 
 in the absence of known facts or in disregard of them, traces 
 definite figures upon the unstable clouds. But such a work 
 must not be confused with history. The historical imagina- 
 tion, whatever it may be, must be exercised with great caution 
 or the main end of historical writing which is exact narration 
 will be defeated. And yet, if history is simply the record of 
 unclothed facts and verified statistics, it will be as dry as a 
 report of the Patent Office, and, wholly lacking in popular 
 interest, its study will be given over to the specialist. There 
 is ample room to reconcile the requirements of truth with the 
 exercise of art. The hand of the artist may correctly pre- 
 serve the lineaments of men and yet make them breathe 
 again. He may truthfully reproduce stirring events and 
 yet with such vividness that one may see them as if they 
 were enacted again under his eye. He may invest the true 
 record with all the dramatic interest of the deed. There is 
 room for vivid narration, rapidity of movement, splendid 
 diction, always assuming that the writer who possesses these 
 qualities will not yield to the temptation simply to display 
 them. He must not play favorites. He must not furbish 
 up the deeds of one man and darken those of another. He 
 must adhere remorselessly to the truth and while he may 
 indulge in philosophy, if he has the faculty to do so, he must 
 strictly subordinate it to the narration. Otherwise he may 
 show himself a brilliant advocate or novelist, or poet, or any- 
 thing, in short, but an historian. 
 
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 History is becoming less and less the chronicle of an indi- 
 vidual, who is made to serve as the lay figure of an age, and 
 more and more the record of the people. It is becoming 
 infused with the democratic spirit. Many a Jack-the-Giant- 
 Killer story has been written as solemn history and we have 
 been regaled with the multitude of prodigies performed by 
 one man, who has had gathered together under his name all 
 the achievements of his time. With the spread of democracy 
 and the diffusion of education, history is acquiring a far broader 
 base. Each man is coming into his own. More and more the 
 name of the doer, however humble, is linked to the deed. 
 That wretched and bedraggled thing that has gone under the 
 name of history, the record of wars, waged to gratify one man's 
 ambition, of court intrigues and scandal, of lying diplomacy, 
 must keep its place in the past. It is out of tune with our 
 time. There are today such abundant records of the lives 
 of men as to form the rich material for a social science. What 
 each man does may be known almost beyond his own power 
 of concealment, and the momentous events of state are apt 
 to be the outcome of the conflict between mighty popular 
 forces and have their roots deep among the masses of the 
 people. The future historian of our time may exactly repro- 
 duce the life of our people from the material which this Society 
 and others like it will collect and preserve. 
 
 What shall be current at any given time you will be likely 
 to secure, but you have an important field of exploration in 
 the past and your intelligent membership will doubtless be 
 able to rescue and to preserve in this central storehouse very 
 much of moment in the history of towns, parishes, families 
 and individuals which might otherwise be lost. Thus your 
 library, already rich in material, will be the necessary resort of 
 scholars who are exploring your own peculiar field. Your 
 publications, I venture to say, will be rather notable for their 
 quality than their number, and you will not imitate the prodi- 
 gality of some of your sister societies, whose fruitfulness in 
 bringing forth volumes is only equaled by the frequent worth- 
 
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 lessness of the progeny. It is doubtless a matter purely of 
 individual taste, but, speaking with all deference, I must 
 confess that I have occasionally failed to be diverted in reading 
 the proceedings of some historical society. The sombre 
 exterior, which one of these volumes sometimes takes on, 
 would throw the most cheerful library into the deepest gloom, 
 from the effect of which the interior would mercifully afford 
 a rescue by inducing profound slumber. 
 
 We have reached the point where the housing of books has 
 raised a serious problem, the difficulty of which would be 
 much lessened by improving their quality at an unsparing 
 expense of numbers. Our education has led us to attach an 
 exaggerated value to books, simply as books, and a due amount 
 of wood pulp, smeared over with printer's ink, attains a mys- 
 tical importance although its value might be greater if it had 
 remained a part of the living tree. 
 
 Lord Rosebery, in speaking at the dedication of a great 
 library building, recently said that he did not propose to 
 repeat any of the 220,000 platitudes uttered at the dedication 
 of the 2,200 libraries reared by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. On 
 the other hand, he confessed to a feeling of depression in the 
 presence of what seemed to him a cemetery for books. The 
 volumes, which even the most diligent and widely learned man 
 would be able to master or profitably to consult in the course 
 of a long lifetime, would form only an insignificant fraction of 
 those contained in any one of a hundred libraries. Due 
 allowance must be made for the fact that great general libra- 
 ries are not established merely to respond to the needs of one 
 man or group of men, and that the largest single capacity is 
 by no means the standard by which to judge. They should 
 be adequate to supply the possible demands of all men. Even 
 under the latter test some of the largest collections of books 
 seem excessively large. It is said that the library of the 
 British Museum with its millions of books contains many 
 miles of shelves upon which the volumes slumber under the 
 dust of years and the repose of which is not likely to be dis- 
 
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 turbed so long as the collection shall endure. It may be 
 granted that the few world-collections of books should contain 
 every author. They are the reservoirs of all learning and the 
 branches of rarer knowledge are likely to suffer injury, if the 
 popularity of a book is in any degree made the test by which 
 to determine whether it shall be preserved. There is, for 
 example, only a very slight demand in this country for the 
 originals of Russian history. And yet the managers of our 
 Library of Congress had the wisdom to secure a great Russian 
 collection and, with the exception of a few vast libraries in 
 Russia itself, there is no place in the world where one, writing 
 a history of that empire, can find a richer wealth of material 
 than at Washington. Reduced to a basis of mere utility the 
 writing of Russian history in America may not be important 
 nor fraught with moment to the happiness of the Nation. 
 But if we set up in all things the standard of utility civilization 
 would very greatly shrink. 
 
 But I imagine a case like that which I have mentioned is 
 clear. The difficulty comes where books have no discernible 
 value. Printing has grown into a place among the great 
 manufacturing interests such as the making of shoes or cotton 
 goods. The presses must be kept running. Each year hun- 
 dreds of thousands of acres of noble trees are made to bow 
 before the axe in order to furnish a part of the material of the 
 industry. Much of this material is not greatly modified in 
 value by the messages it is made to bear and our large libraries 
 are in danger of adding to their normal functions that of the 
 mere storehouse for lumber, unless some judicious process of 
 selection shall be applied in choosing books and newspapers. 
 As to the latter, whether the first duty in any given case 
 would be one of suppression or preservation, one has but to 
 imagine what would be the result if, by some great convulsion 
 of nature, all the records of our time should be destroyed 
 except those contained in the files of a given newspaper, and 
 the learned men of some far distant age should study this 
 record with the reverence and care which we bestow upon 
 
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 the Babylonian inscriptions. From one type of newspaper 
 which has an existence today those wise men would feel 
 certain in the discovery of an age of self-exploiting criminals, 
 whose charities were as ostentatious as their crimes, an age 
 which delighted in flaunting its worst men by putting them in 
 public office, an abnormal and unbalanced age, the gross 
 wickedness of which was relieved only by the superlative 
 goodness of a mysterious institution, called the people, whose 
 bodily existence was made manifest in the deeds and utter- 
 ances of perhaps a half-score of men. New Hampshire is 
 very likely deficient in newspapers of that sort. It can prob- 
 ably not boast of one which would generally mislead a future 
 writer, unless possibly as to the character of the editor of its 
 rival. The files of your newspapers are invaluable as sources 
 of current history and they are certainly indispensable to the 
 preservation of local events. 
 
 It is interesting to speculate upon what books should be 
 preserved, keeping the boundaries widely extended even 
 beyond the limit of use. I imagine there would be no question 
 that those which contain the materials of history, in the 
 broad sense of that term, or those which were scientific in 
 their time, however obsolete their learning may have become, 
 should be preserved. Those which have a literary purpose 
 and base the claim of the right to exist upon purely literary 
 grounds must be judged to an extent at least by the standards 
 of that art. Of such books two types may be noted, which, 
 while nominally of the same class, lie at such opposite extremes 
 as not to be bedfellows of each other. The first type includes 
 some of the so-called "best sellers" which after a brief vogue, 
 commonly attained by every device of puffery, pass on to the 
 oblivion of the neglected shelf. Some of them we would very 
 willingly let die. The same summary fate should be visited 
 upon the filth and rubbish far too often put out under the 
 name of fiction, which teach bad morals in questionable gram- 
 mar and in a vicious style. But the work of suppression 
 should be pursued with caution for so many-sided a thing as 
 
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 truth may have some one of its aspects caught and reflected 
 in the mirror of some muddy pool as well as upon the broad 
 expanse of a lake. 
 
 At the other extreme may be found the choice and master 
 spirits of their times, rarely popular in comparison with their 
 ephemeral fellows of the moment, but immortal in their cur- 
 rency. They live on from age to age and are the supreme 
 expressions of the literary art. They are the classics not 
 merely of Greece and Rome but of every land. They lie at 
 the foundation of libraries as their study lies at the foundation 
 of the truest culture. Any system of higher education which 
 omits them fails in one of its most important ends. Our 
 better natures are apt to assert themselves in spite of any 
 system of training in books or schools, but operating alone, a 
 system which has for its sole purpose to make man an efiicient 
 instrument in attacking the forces of nature, may lower him 
 to the plane of the forces with which he contends and reduce 
 him to the level of materialism. 
 
 Between the extremes to which I have referred, grading 
 from the best on the one side to the most useless on the other, 
 lie a great mass of books, some of which are very good and 
 none wholly bad, and they form a valuable part of the world's 
 aggregate of literature and learning, important to be trans- 
 mitted to the future. It is possible that the ingenuity of 
 man may hereafter devise some effective method for extracting 
 the juices from books and taking from them what is really 
 vital and useful in them. If that shall be done there will be a 
 great mortality among books. 
 
 But I should do only scant justice to this occasion if I neg- 
 lected to refer to the noble history which is in your special 
 keeping. And when I speak of your history I need hardly 
 say that the term is far broader than the official transactions 
 of the State, and that it comprehends the life, the character 
 and achievements of her people, and the growth and develop- 
 ment of the institutions with which her name is associated. 
 The first settlement of New Hampshire did not have the 
 
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 dramatic features to make it the splendid historical event 
 seen in the landing at Plymouth. Indeed, it was to an impor- 
 tant extent an offshoot of the Pilgrim Colony and that of 
 Massachusetts Bay, and the founders of New Hampshire 
 were chiefly of that same stock; they had the same virility, 
 the same firmness of purpose, the same love of a freedom reg- 
 ulated by law, the same intellectual and moral qualities. 
 The stock at an early day was modified, and certainly not 
 impaired, by a strong infusion of the Scotch-Irish and other 
 bloods. The race spread over your valleys and hills from the 
 Ocean to the White Mountains and by the time of the Revolu- 
 tion these hardy pioneers had developed all the essentials of 
 a stable, self-governing state. From that time to the present, 
 there has been no part of the Union where the great ends of 
 government have been more steadily and efficiently secured. 
 Her sons were in the forefront at Bunker Hill and Bennington 
 and upon the other fields of the Revolution, and there has 
 been no hour of peril to the country or its institutions when 
 they have not gloriously performed their part, whether in 
 peace or war. She has not, indeed, been one of the prolific 
 hives from which myriads of emigrants have swarmed to people 
 other states and countries. Her population has not been 
 great enough for that. But she has performed a higher part 
 and has sent forth men who have greatly helped in shaping 
 the political institutions of the Nation, who have guarded the 
 destinies of great states and have aided in founding new 
 empires. 
 
 If you try to trace the influences that have made the America 
 of today you touch the mainsprings of the Nation's history 
 when you come to the hillsides of New Hampshire. Let me 
 recur to just a few particulars. Horace Greeley first saw the 
 light upon a small and barren farm in Amherst. Chase was 
 born in the valley of the Connecticut upon a farm across 
 which the western sun throws the shadow of Ascutney. 
 When the mighty forces were ranging which were to determine 
 the issue between freedom and slavery upon this continent 
 
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 what influences were more potent in moulding opinion in 
 favor of freedom than those wielded by the great statesman 
 and by the great journalist whose names I have just spoken? 
 
 And there is the supreme classical instance which the flight 
 of years has but served to make brighter. America had 
 received no clear mandate to be a Nation. Amid the jumble 
 of clashing sovereignties, the conflict of sections and the 
 growing differences over slavery, the Union seemed likely to 
 crumble. It needed that a mighty word should be spoken 
 and spoken as man almost never before spake. That word 
 was uttered by a great son of New Hampshire. It had in it 
 the strength of her mountains. It had in it the beauty of 
 her lakes and valleys, the depth of her forests and the music 
 of her streams. All over the North men heard it. They 
 were charmed by it. They caught it up and repeated it again 
 and again. It entered into their lives. It caused the sun of 
 the Nation to shine. It inspired millions of men upon the 
 battlefield. It bore the message that saved the Union. And 
 the saving of the Union was necessary to the destruction of 
 slavery. Lincoln and the glorious things for which he stood 
 and will forever stand were made possible by your own 
 Webster. 
 
 And then we must not overlook the story of the founding 
 and growth of your College, whose very foundations have been 
 strengthened by the same generous hand that reared this 
 building. It is at the summit of your admirable institutions 
 of learning and your system of public instruction. From the 
 time when Wheelock planted it in the wilderness it has grown 
 in influence and strength, and it has aided in carrying the 
 name of New Hampshire around the world. What tran- 
 scendent good fortune has been hers to be associated with 
 world-history events. In her own name, and because of her 
 pathetic circumstances and the immortal eloquence of her 
 advocate, was established the doctrine that the charter of a 
 corporation was a contract with the state and thus came under 
 the shield of the National Constitution. Under this palladium 
 
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 that marvelous instrumentality of industrial development, 
 the modern corporation, has been perfected, with all its evils, 
 if you will, but also with all its benefits. Many of those evils 
 have been cured, and the rest will yet be dealt with by the 
 intelligence and sense of justice of the people. But the vast 
 benefits are here. The wealth of the country has been many 
 times multiplied, its population has been greatly increased. 
 Vast regions which a century ago were unknown have been 
 overlaced with railroads, great commonwealths have sprung 
 into being, and the country has been made an industrial and 
 commercial as well as a political unit. There may be those 
 who will tell you it would be better if it were a smaller country. 
 But a smaller country it would surely be had the court laid 
 down the opposite doctrine in the College case. Before the 
 people recognized the value of the co-operation, made possible 
 on a large scale by the corporation alone, and while the prej- 
 udice still existed against that creature without a soul, its 
 development would have been arrested a hundred times by 
 hostile legislation. It is a strange destiny that a New Eng- 
 land college, struggling in the depths of poverty, should have 
 been an important source out of which was to spring the most 
 rapid and the most fabulous development of wealth which 
 the world has ever known. And then through her great son 
 her name will be forever linked with nationality and the 
 preservation of the Union. 
 
 There are some of us who love her for her less refulgent 
 glories, those who are of her own household and know the 
 splendid democracy which she teaches, her inspiration to 
 learning and to noble living, and who have felt the spell and 
 the witchery of her beauty. Long may the gentle sway of 
 this queen of the peerless Connecticut rest lightly and lovingly 
 upon the throngs of generous and happy youth, whom she 
 shall gather about her upon her wide-spreading meadows and 
 among her sun-kissed hills. 
 
 Such is the character of the history which you are especially 
 to cherish. It is not the sterile story of a political or an intel- 
 
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 lectual province. This little commonwealth with her own 
 history, her own traditions and her self-centred growth, giving 
 richly as well as receiving from the Nation of which she is a 
 part, shines serenely with her own light. It is your province 
 to do what you can to make perfect the record of her splendid 
 past and, let us hope, of her not less splendid future. It is 
 a high and noble trust that is put in your keeping. 
 
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THE BANQUET 
 
 AT THE conclusion of Mr. McCall's address the 
 President invited the members and guests to a ban- 
 quet given by the Society in honor of Edward 
 Tuck, to be immediately served at the auditorium of the 
 City Hall. 
 
 The procession was again formed and marched to the audi- 
 torium, where members and guests to the number of five hun- 
 dred assembled at the tables. Grace was said by the Rt. Rev. 
 William W. Niles, D. D., Bishop of New Hampshire. 
 
 ADDRESS OF SAMUEL C. EASTMAN 
 
 At the conclusion of the banquet the President said: 
 
 Greeting and welcoming you most cordially as guests of the New Hampshire 
 Historical Society, it gives me pleasure to introduce to you a well-known and most 
 zealous friend and member of the Society as toastmaster for this occasion, the Hon. 
 Samuel C. Eastman of Concord. 
 
 The New Hampshire Historical Society extends a cordial 
 welcome to you who today honor us by your presence. The 
 occasion is one of great importance to the Society. To dedi- 
 cate our new building is to enter upon a new life, to open a new 
 field and to establish new standards for the future activities 
 and usefulness of the Society. We are encouraged by the 
 attendance of so large a number not only of our own members, 
 but also by the presence of our guests, who have come from a 
 distance to manifest their interest in our welfare, and to join 
 with us in this social hour in honor of our chief guest. 
 
 The New Hampshire Historical Society was formed May 23, 
 1825, at a meeting of representative citizens of our State. 
 Among them were Ichabod Bartlett, Nathaniel A. Haven, Jr., 
 Samuel Dana Bell, Jacob B. Moore and John Farmer, and the 
 
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60 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 first president was William Plumer, with Levi Woodbury as 
 first vice-president, names still held in honor as solid, safe and 
 eminent men. It has been said that real history can only be 
 written by men of vivid imagination. This supplies that 
 occasional flash of genius which so often enlivens the pages of 
 Macaulay and enables us to realize the past in a way that no 
 mere chronicler of bare facts can make possible. The men I 
 have named and those associated with them, the founders of 
 this Society, were men of that stamp. Though born and 
 bred in the somewhat chilly atmosphere of Puritanic asce- 
 ticism, they unconsciously, perhaps, imbibed from some source 
 the inspiration of an enthusiastic imagination, and laid down 
 a broad and liberal foundation for the Historical Society. In 
 the preamble to the act of incorporation their aims and 
 character are shown in the following words: 
 
 "Wliereas the persons hereinafter named have associated for the 
 laudable purpose of collecting and preserving such books and papers 
 as may illustrate the early history of the State and of acquiring and 
 communicating the knowledge of the natural history and botanical 
 and mineralogical productions of the State as well as for the general 
 advancement of science and literature, and, whereas, the object of 
 their association is of public utility and deserves to be encouraged, 
 therefore be it enacted," etc. 
 
 In the words of an almost contemporary New Hampshire 
 
 poet: 
 
 " No pent-up Utica contracts [their] powers." 
 
 The whole field of cultured life and duty was before them and 
 they entered upon the discharge of that duty with fidelity and 
 zeal. Their idealism is shown in the high standards which 
 they set up, imposing upon us, their successors, duties as yet 
 unfulfilled. They clearly realized that if you think nobly 
 noble action will surely follow. 
 
 Yet if one of those founders had taken a nap in the attic 
 room in which I first remember the archives of the Society, 
 where the cobwebs hung dimly from the bare rafters over the 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 61 
 
 scantily furnished shelves below, and dreamed that the Society 
 dwelt in marble halls, not even the heathen god of dreams 
 could have so excited his imagination as to have pictured the 
 home in store for it which we have just left and which we have 
 dedicated to history, science, literature, botany and mineralogy, 
 to follow the words of the scheme laid down for us eighty 
 years ago. No one ever lived and prospered on negation. 
 Our progenitors were positive and hitched their wagon to a 
 star, and we are enjoying the fruition of their ambition. 
 
 It does not seem proper that this occasion should pass by 
 without a tribute to the beautiful, classical design of our new 
 building, which adds so much to the attractiveness of the square 
 in which it stands. We owe this to the eminent architect, 
 Guy Lowell of Boston. The universal verdict is that it is a 
 gem of priceless value. (Applause.) 
 
 Nor should the artist who modeled the group over the main 
 entrance fail to receive his due mead of praise for the artistic 
 skill with which he has performed his task. He has many 
 works of art to his credit, and has added greatly to his reputa- 
 tion as a sculptor by this, his latest achievement. I regret 
 to say that with that modesty to which great artists so often 
 yield, he refuses to allow his name to be placed on the list of 
 speakers. Even if he is silent his works speak for him. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 Both building and group are cut from our own Concord 
 granite and they will long remain as enduring monuments to 
 the genius of their authors. 
 
 Mr. Timothy P. Sullivan, who has faithfully watched over 
 the work day by day, deserves commendation for the fidelity 
 with which he has guarded against imperfections in material 
 and mechanical execution. (Applause.) 
 
 The building, compared with what we now have, may at 
 first sight seem large for the uses of the Society. How shall 
 we ever find books enough to fill the shelves and works of art 
 enough to adorn the exhibition room? The purposes of the 
 Society, as you have seen, are comprehensive. We must collect 
 
62 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 anything and everything relating to the State of New Hamp- 
 shire, its towns and its people. All printed books, pamphlets 
 and even broadsides have a place here. The utmost catho- 
 licity of taste should guide the librarian, who indeed, if endowed 
 with the spirit of his calling, will find it difficult to reject any 
 printed book or manuscript bearing even in the most trivial 
 manner on our State, or on the people, their life and customs. 
 Just as the Mahomedan was said to be unwilling to step on a 
 piece of paper for fear that he might dishonor the name of 
 God, so the librarian is afraid to reject what may sometime be 
 earnestly sought for. Professor Saintsbury once asked Dr. 
 Richard Garnet of the British Museum "What do you do with 
 that rubbish?" The answer came with a quaint smile: "Well, 
 you see, it is very difficult to know what is rubbish today, and 
 quite impossible to know what will be rubbish tomorrow." 
 We need have no fear of too much space to fill, but rather of 
 too little. Indeed, it has always seemed to me that no library 
 should ever be built without a plan and ground for enlarge- 
 ment as soon as the roof is on. 
 
 The erection and completion of the building has been slow 
 but thorough. For this latter quality, and indeed for careful, 
 diligent and laborious oversight and planning too much praise 
 cannot be given to the chairman of the Building Committee, 
 Hon. Benjamin A. Kimball. He has been untiring in his devo- 
 tion to the work and no detail has been too small for his 
 supervision. With unstinted self-sacrifice he has given more 
 than two years almost wholly to the Society and we are glad 
 to record our recognition of its value. (Applause.) 
 
 The land on which it stands has been fully paid for by 
 contributions from persons interested in the Society aided by 
 a large addition to the fund by Mr. Tuck. 
 
 The donor, Mr. Edwai'd Tuck, has exacted a promise that 
 he shall not be called upon to speak at this banquet, even in 
 response to a toast. We think that he is far too modest and 
 greatly underrates his gifts. We must, however, respect his 
 wishes and allow him to listen to us who are less worthy. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 63 
 
 He forgot, fortunately, to pledge me not to speak of what he 
 has done. The whole cost of this building, constructed from 
 foundation to roof to last for centuries, absolutely fireproof, 
 and admirably adapted to the purposes for which it is designed, 
 as well as of a part of the land on which it stands, is his gift to 
 the Society. As he has said, it is a token of his love for his 
 native State. 
 
 I can at least ask you to join with me in showing your 
 appreciation of the gift he has bestowed upon the Society 
 (turning toward Mr. Tuck, all those present rising,) and to 
 you, Edward Tuck, and to your esteemed wife whose advice, 
 good taste and countenance have at all times been freely at 
 your service and contributed so much to the end at which 
 you both aimed, we now one and all tender you our hearty 
 thanks and our best wishes for many years of health and 
 happiness. (Long and hearty applause.) 
 
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY MR. TUCK 
 
 I am touched by the honor that has been given to me today 
 and by the very kind and hearty manner in which you have 
 mentioned my name. After the eloquent addresses to which 
 we have listened — and there are others which are to come, — 
 I will not venture more than to say simply "Thank you" 
 and to say that this occasion will remain always fresh in my 
 memory as one of the most gratifying of my hfe. I thank you. 
 
 ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR ROBERT P. BASS 
 
 The Toastmaster: The New Hampshire Historical Society is a society of the 
 whole State. If it has not a member in every town it ought to have and I hope 
 soon will have. All our citizens are interested in its purposes and objects. For 
 this and other reasons our first toast is to 
 
 "the state of new HAMPSnraE, CHERISHED BT 03 ALL." 
 
 His Excellency Robert P. Bass, Governor of New Hampshire. 
 
 It falls to the lot of but few men in my official position to 
 represent their State on such a happy occasion. This building, 
 which we have just dedicated, will serve as a link to bind the 
 best of our history and traditions in the past with those 
 
64 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 
 
 achievements of the future which we so confidently expect. 
 For this generous gift our distinguished guest, Mr. Edward 
 Tuck, should receive the thanks, not only of the members of 
 this Society, but of all those interested in the welfare of our 
 commonwealth. I am here as chief magistrate of the State 
 to convey to him in some measure the gratitude felt by all 
 good citizens of New Hampshire. I cannot but realize the 
 inadequacy of words for this task and I am convinced, knowing 
 as I do the altruism of the man, that the greatest proof of our 
 appreciation will be the high purpose to which we devote this 
 building. 
 
 It would seem most fitting that we should recall at this time 
 the many important services rendered by that able, loyal and 
 public-spirited citizen, Mr. Amos Tuck of Exeter, father of 
 Mr. Edward Tuck. He held many offices of trust. He was 
 for six years a member of Congress and his connection with the 
 public affairs of the State and Nation was both long and influ- 
 ential. It is indeed a pleasure on this day to do honor to his 
 memory. 
 
 Mr. Tuck, it is my opinion that this beautiful structure will 
 furnish inspiration to historical students for generations to 
 come. But it will do more. It will provide the means for 
 perpetuating an intimate memory, not only of those great men 
 of whom we are so justly proud, but also of the men unknown 
 to fame who have contributed their substantial share toward 
 making New Hampshire all that she now is. Furthermore, 
 it will bring us in closer relation to the history of our State in 
 the making. The beauty of this building and its harmonious 
 relation and proximity to the State House forms a happy 
 analogy from which we may gather the work which will be 
 expected from members of this Society in the future. 
 
 From the laboratory of the student of history and govern- 
 ment will come the formulas which legislators must use in 
 constructing the laws. The experience of mankind, as col- 
 lected in history, furnishes the material for that laboratory. 
 The science of government ought to be an exact science, drawn 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 65 
 
 from the accumulation of accurate and complete historical 
 data. The difficulty in the past has been that too frequently 
 this data has been inexact, fragmentary and colored by the 
 opinions and passions of men actually engaged in political or 
 social conflict. Historians have too often considered that 
 their work lay exclusively in the records of the past, and have 
 ignored the fact that history is making every day and 
 that there is at hand material invaluable to the future of 
 humanity, which, if not gathered together at once, will vanish 
 forever, leaving behind only vague memories. 
 
 Official acts, public records, letters and speeches of individ- 
 uals will remain, but that is not enough. The success or 
 failure of the different branches of government, executive, 
 legislative, even judiciary, lie interwoven in a vast number of 
 incidents, which must be gathered, sifted and analyzed to 
 reach accurate conclusions. It is only through the conscien- 
 tious accumulation and co-ordination of such fleeting data 
 that the true atmosphere may be known in which our greatest 
 historical movements find birth. The historian should get 
 this material by original research and not leave that work to 
 chance. When he has done that he will become an even more 
 vital force in the community, for to him must turn the men 
 who are doing the work, who have not time in the turmoil and 
 heat of active life to analyze and adequately construct. 
 
 May this building be symbolical not only of New Hampshire's 
 important part in the past history of the Nation, but also 
 of the place she will maintain for herself in the future. Let 
 the achievements of New Hampshire's sons in the days to come 
 justify our donor's expectations as shown in the richness, 
 the completeness and generosity of this gift. 
 
 ADDRESS OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS 
 
 The Toastmaster: We owe much to Massachusetts, which at one time exer- 
 cised dominion over a large part of our State and imposed upon us laws which 
 have very much perplexed our courts in late years, especially when applied to 
 regions which were never a part of that commonwealth. We have tried to pay 
 the debt by sending them senators, governors, members of Congress, judges, 
 lawyers and doctors, so that the balance is now on our side. We have also 
 
66 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 followed the lead of Massachusetts in many ways. The first Historical Society 
 was formed in Massachusetts, which is more vigorous now than ever before. 
 We took pattern therefrom. It is, therefore, eminently proper that we should 
 hear from the Massachusetts Historical Society today, and the President, a gentle- 
 man eminent as a scholar, a soldier, a historian and a statesman, has consented 
 to honor us by his presence. I give you 
 
 "the historical societies of other states," 
 and present Hon. Charles Francis Adams, President of the Massachusetts Historical 
 Society. 
 
 In the course of his most illuminating dedicatory address 
 this morning, Mr. McCall made reference to Lord Rosebery, 
 or the Earl of Midlothian, as I suppose he should now be called, 
 and the commotion recently caused by him in British library 
 circles. It was, you will remember, at a dedication similar 
 to that of today, and he referred to public libraries as "ceme- 
 teries of dead books." And Lord Rosebery otherwise at the 
 same time fluttered the librarian dovecotes by commenting in 
 tones closely resembling despair upon the present tendency to 
 accumulate "Hterary rubbish"; a term I remember myself 
 using some two years ago at Worcester, upon the laying of the 
 corner stone of the building of the American Antiquarian Soci- 
 ety, applying it to the indiscriminate collection of printed mat- 
 ter. More recently, at the opening of the Bishopsgate Library 
 in London, his lordship has reverted to the subject, declaring 
 that the British Museum must in time, — and not a very long 
 time — become a sort of town in the middle of London ; and he 
 then added — "If the doctrine of grasping librarians be sound, 
 this extension must go on at a vast and fruitless cost, enough 
 to set the man who is not by nature bookish against everything 
 in the form of literature." 
 
 A tolerably sweeping indictment, this suggestion is undeni- 
 ably germane to the present occasion — for we are here to dedi- 
 cate yet another library building; but I want to call Lord 
 Rosebery 's attention, as also the attention of our orator of the 
 day, to the fact that these references to libraries as "ceme- 
 teries of dead books" are by no means new. Henry Hallam, 
 the author of the "Literary History of Europe" and "Europe 
 in the Middle Ages," was, as a writer of a period close upon a 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 67 
 
 century gone, not greatly given to figures of rhetoric; he is 
 deemed even what is termed dry — distinctly lacking in those 
 imaginative qualities to which Mr. McCall has made a not 
 altogether approving reference. But, nevertheless, there is a 
 passage in Hallam's "Europe in the Middle Ages" [Vol. Ill, 
 p. 426] the words of which, striking my fancy when I first 
 read the book as a college student over fifty years ago, have 
 abided in my recollection ever since. The somewhat prosaic 
 if very erudite historian there suddenly broke into poetry, 
 exclaiming, — "The history of literature, hke that of empire, 
 is full of revolutions. Our public libraries are cemeteries of 
 departed reputation; and the dust accumulating upon their 
 untouched volumes speaks as forcibly as the grass that waves 
 over the ruins of Babylon. Few, very few, for a hundred 
 years past, have broken the repose of the immense works of the 
 schoolmen." And referring to those same "schoolmen" in yet 
 another passage, even more rhetorical in character, he, in his 
 "Literary History of Europe" [Vol. I, p. 373] calls them the 
 "champions of a long war," adding: — "These are they, and 
 many more there were down to the middle of the seventeenth 
 century, at whom, along the shelves of an ancient library, we 
 look and pass by. They belong no more to man, but to the 
 worm, the moth, the spider. Their dark and ribbed backs, 
 their yellow leaves, their thousand folio pages, do not more 
 repel us than the unprofitableness of their substance. Their 
 prolixity, their barbarous style, the perpetual recurrence, in 
 many, of syllogistic forms, the reliance, by way of proof, on 
 authorities that have been abjured, the temporary and partial 
 disputes, which can be neither interesting nor always intelli- 
 gible at present, must soon put an end to the activity of the 
 most industrious scholar." 
 
 I do not propose now and here to venture further into the 
 recesses and among the gravestones of this "cemetery." My 
 time is limited, and I propose to confine myself to it; nor is this 
 the place for treatises. Moreover, I have on this topic already 
 said my say, which those curious on the subject may, if they 
 
68 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF TEE 
 
 choose to look, find in its proper place in the publications of 
 the American Antiquarian Society. But yet before passing 
 to other subjects I do want to say that I cannot regard the 
 accumulation of printed matter as constituting a problem 
 quite so insoluble as it seems to be in the opinion of Lord 
 Rosebery or of Mr. McCall. To use somewhat long words, it 
 is, in my opinion, merely a question of differentiation and co- 
 operation. That any one library, either the Congressional or 
 the British Museum, should have and retain on its shelves all 
 printed matter is absurd to suppose. The accumulation buries 
 itself in its own bulk. It gets beyond human ingenuity to 
 handle it in such a way as to render its contents available. 
 Why! — today, even, the reference room of the New York City 
 Library contains four millions of cards, and the volume of 
 those flowing daily in, numbered by hundreds, is, as the elder 
 Weller once remarked in a wholly dissimilar connection "a 
 swellin' wisibly before my wery eyes." Think, then, of the 
 future; for even this is but the beginning! As a remedy, and 
 obvious remedy, for this distinctly dropsical condition, we 
 already differentiate to a degree; but, as yet, libraries almost 
 wholly fail to co-operate. The Boston Athenaeum, for instance, 
 to which I propose to refer more particularly somewhat later, 
 undertook when it was started a little over a century ago, 
 to collect law, theology, science, medicine, and in fact to 
 constitute itself a receptacle of knowledge on all subjects in 
 addition to a collection of general literature. This idea was 
 long since abandoned; and, today, no student or investigator 
 in the different professions or callings thinks of going for pur- 
 poses of research to any library except one devoted to his 
 specialty. In the not remote future this differentiation will 
 be carried much further, and co-operation will be reduced to a 
 system. That will go far to solve Lord Rosebery 's problem; 
 one copy of a book or periodical will be kept in its proper place, 
 and the ninety-nine other copies will go to their own place, — 
 probably the furnace. The time is now near when, for instance, 
 nearly all periodical literature will drift into collections spe- 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 69 
 
 cially devoted to their keeping. These will constitute deposi- 
 taries by themselves, to which other libraries will refer. I 
 look forward, therefore, with confidence to the time when in our 
 libraries there will be periodical clearances of dead books; and 
 books condemned as dead will not, as is usually supposed be 
 consigned to the flames or sent to the pulp-mill, but after 
 careful winnowing, they will be sent to that especial library or 
 institution— wherever it may be— which devotes itself to the 
 particular form in literature to which the dead book in question 
 belongs. There they will repose in quiet,— one copy sufficing; 
 whereas now the effort is to keep perhaps five hundred use- 
 lessly shelved in different localities. 
 
 Under such a system, what will then be the province of 
 Historical Societies, such as ours in Massachusetts, — the 
 mother of them all— or of this here in New Hampshire — one 
 of its earliest children.? My theory is that neither the Massa- 
 chusetts Historical Society nor the New Hampshire Historical 
 Society is, properly speaking, a library at all. It is rather a 
 catch-basin. Its specialty is to collect, receive and preserve 
 the raw material of history, whatever that may be. If books, 
 they are books never read and rarely consulted. The Histori- 
 cal Society library is, in a word, a receptacle and clearing house 
 of data, especially of manuscripts, whether records, diaries or 
 correspondence. Yet of this vast mass of unprinted matter 
 it is safe to say not one per cent, has value. None the less, 
 that one per cent.,— the grain of wheat in the bushel of chaff"— 
 needs to be carefully winnowed out; and to winnow it out is 
 the function of the Historical Society. To that function it 
 should in future more especially confine itself. Beyond that, 
 it is for it, in so far as it can, to find room for the vast accumu- 
 lation of printed matter, the output to no small extent of the 
 government press, made up of journals of the day, historical 
 studies, and that indescribable and immeasurable miscella- 
 neous volume of such matter for which place cannot be found 
 in the general public library, much less in any private collection. 
 After accumulation, safety is the great desideratum for which 
 
70 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 costly provision must be made. And now let me improve 
 the occasion by an example. Today we have in Boston a col- 
 lection of infinite value, exposed daily to the utmost risk. 
 Like the New York State Library, it may tomorrow go up 
 in smoke. I refer to the Boston Athenaeum. Owing to 
 the sentimental feelings and pernicious activity, — as I can- 
 not but call it, — of certain Boston ladies who had from child- 
 hood looked upon the Athenaeum building on old Beacon 
 Street as one of the city's most precious architectural monu- 
 ments, the Athenaeum collection, the loss of which would be 
 wholly irreparable, is kept in one of the most ingeniously ill- 
 arranged of library buildings and, incidentally, a thorough- 
 going fire-trap. It is but necessary to go there, and, guided 
 by the courteous librarian, to look about, to reach the conclu- 
 sion that the edifice is not only a very bad fire-risk, but by 
 no possible expenditure of money, no matter how freely used, 
 could it be converted into a library structure either modern 
 or convenient. I myself well remember the laying of its 
 corner stone, nearly seventy years ago. I distinctly recall 
 seeing, as a boy, President Quincy, then a man of seventy -five, 
 delivering an open-air address to the not large number of 
 people gathered on Beacon Street to listen to him. In those 
 days builders had no conception of what is now known as fire- 
 proof construction; and the convenient interior arrangement 
 of a public library for the reception and use of a large collection 
 of books was a thing as yet wholly undeveloped by architects. 
 On the other hand, that Athenaeum building now contains a 
 collection which, if lost, simply could not be replaced, — a 
 collection absolutely unique. 
 
 The other day a volume of the Gutenberg Bible was sold 
 for $30,000; a copy of the first folio of Shakespeare commands, 
 I believe, some $6,000. Valuable as curiosities, no loss would 
 be sustained from any practical point of view if either or 
 both of those highly prized volumes passed out of existence. 
 Themselves reproduced through modern facsimile processes, 
 their contents exist in countless republications. Copies can 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 71 
 
 be obtained of any desired shape and size, and at prices to 
 suit the most exacting collector or modest purchaser. It is 
 altogether otherwise with any file of an eighteenth century 
 newspaper. That, if lost, is gone, — it cannot be replaced. Im- 
 possible of reprinting, it can neither be facsimiled nor copied. 
 Its reproduction is out of the question. Money cannot buy a 
 duplicate. Yet today, while in view of the extreme inflamma- 
 bility of the building, a number of pamphlets and manuscripts 
 of the Boston Athenaeum, every one of which is in print else- 
 where or could be reproduced or copied, have been placed in a 
 fire-proof safe, its files of newspapers, numbering many thou- 
 sand volumes, are deposited in rooms from which, in case of 
 conflagration, their removal would be impossible. It would 
 be merely a question of their being reduced to ashes or to 
 pulp, — destruction by fire or destruction by water. As 
 one of the proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum, I have repeat- 
 edly said in public, and now say again, such a storing of 
 a body of printed matter, the replacement of which if destroyed 
 is out of the question, is in these days, in every respect except 
 law, a continuing breach of trust. It is morally criminal, 
 though not a statutory offence. The owners have no right 
 to expose it to such a risk. Remember the recent conflagra- 
 tion at Albany! Every day that the collection of the Boston 
 Athenaeum, though a private collection, is retained where it is, 
 a fresh burden of responsibility rests upon the heads of those 
 female sentimentalists, who, years ago, made impossible its 
 removal to a place of security, where it could be propei-ly 
 consulted. 
 
 I have now improved the present occasion by bearing public 
 witness on a matter concerning which I feel strongly. At 
 least it is gratifying to think that whatever you may here 
 collect, — -and the collections of the New Hampshire Historical 
 Society are most valuable, — they are, thanks to Mr. Tuck, 
 safe within the building this day dedicated, from the two great 
 enemies of historical material, — fire and damp, and per- 
 manently accessible to the investigator and student. I wish 
 
72 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 most devoutly that your counterpart, Mr. Tuck, would today 
 not only put in an appearance, but from what he both sees 
 and hears would drink an inspiration as the benefactor as well 
 as a proprietor of the Boston Athenaeum. 
 
 ADDRESS OF GUY LOWELL 
 
 The Toabtmaster: There is no part of the civilized world, ancient or modern, 
 where buildings erected for public purposes are not the most interesting and instruc- 
 tive of the works of man. It is the architect who furnished the knowledge and the 
 genius which inspired and secured the erection of these buildings. Without him we 
 might have had a shelter in which to take refuge, but not the monumental pile 
 which inspires awe, admiration and veneration. Our building is one of the class 
 which will long be visited, admired and revered. In it the architect has given us 
 the result of his best studies and efforts. It will always be a work to which he and 
 his children can point with pride. I am glad that we are to hear from him. I 
 give you: 
 
 "architecture, the most enduring memorial of the past. ' 
 I present to respond, our architect, Guy Lowell, of Boston. 
 
 It gives me very great pleasure today when all of us have 
 uppermost in our mind the duty that is imposed upon us to 
 hand down to posterity the priceless records and memorials of 
 the past, to be called upon to speak on architecture as " the most 
 enduring memorial of the past." I think those words of Mr. 
 Eastman are expressive, because in so far as architecture has 
 been enduring in the past, history has been enduring, and the 
 history of architecture is the history of civilization. The 
 first builder, when the human race was primitive and nomadic 
 was called on only to build a shelter against the weather, but 
 as time went on man's life became more civilized and his 
 institutions became stable. Then the first architect who 
 practiced architecture as a fine art, tried to add to his building 
 something besides practical utility. He tried to add beauty. 
 He tried, in other words, to express an idea, so little by little 
 architects have shown, in doing the work of what you might 
 call their trade, a desire to add beauty and to express some of 
 the emotions. So today, in looking back into the past, we 
 find that there has been added to the utilitarian, first, 
 beauty of decoration, and then that the architect, by means of 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 73 
 
 beauty and decoration has often tried to tell a story and that 
 with the assistance of the painter and of the sculptor, he has 
 succeeded in handing down monuments which are lasting records 
 of what men have accomplished in the past. We get a sense 
 of the power of mankind, a knowledge of the institutions he 
 has established, his power in accomplishing deeds, almost 
 entirely from his buildings and monuments, just as we get 
 a sensation of the grandeur and the majesty of the Almighty 
 from nature. 
 
 We have tried in this building to express an idea, and it is 
 successful in so far as it does express the simplicity and the 
 dignity and the straightforward character of the men who have 
 made history in this State and of those men, who, in perpetuat- 
 ing it, have shown that they carried deep in their hearts a love 
 for their country and for their State. 
 
 As La Rochefoucauld says in his two hundred and fiftieth 
 maxim that true eloquence consists of saying that which is 
 necessary and leaving out that which is superfluous, I am going 
 to sit down. 
 
 ADDRESS OF SAMUEL L. POWERS 
 
 The Toastm aster: The small college that there are those who love has grown to 
 be a large college with its thousands of graduates who not only love but almost 
 worship it. Our constitution enforces the nurture of institutions of learning, and 
 the State is beginning to recognize its duty to Dartmouth, of whose success and 
 high rank we are all so proud. There is a reciprocal relation and influence which 
 cannot be too often or too strongly emphasized. Our next toast is: 
 
 "DARTMOUTH AND THE STATE: WHAT WOULD ONE DO WITHOUT THE OTHER?" 
 
 I regret to announce that President Nichols who was to respond for the College has 
 been ordered to the seclusion of a dark room by his physician. He has deputed 
 Hon. Samuel L. Powers, a member of the Board of Trustees, to take his place and I 
 have the honor of now presenting him to you. 
 
 Whenever you observe me sitting at the head table on a 
 great occasion like this, and called upon to make a speech 
 you can well understand that someone is ill. If I may be 
 permitted to use a football phrase at this season of the year, 
 I belong to what is called the second team. I never get 
 into play in a great game unless someone on the first team is 
 
74 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 
 
 injured. For the past two weeks I have been following the 
 fortunes, or rather misfortunes, of football. Following my 
 team to Princeton I saw it lose by misfortune. Following my 
 team to Cambridge I saw it lose by another misfortune, and 
 I come here today to find that the old College has met with 
 another serious misfortune, and must go down to defeat on 
 this occasion because the official head of the institution is not 
 present. I regret quite as much as anyone can that Doctor 
 Nichols is not here today to speak for Dartmouth. 
 
 The toast which you have assigned, or did assign, to Presi- 
 dent Nichols, is the State of New Hampshire and Dartmouth 
 College. Can anyone think of one without thinking of the 
 other.'' The College is twenty years older than the State, and 
 for nearly a century and a quarter they have gone on as a 
 married couple, and have had but one family jar, and that is 
 pretty good for more than a century of married life. As I 
 look back to that difficulty which arose between the College 
 and the State so many years ago, I am reminded that it occurred 
 early during the married life of the College and the State, and 
 I am rather inclined to think that the College was more respon- 
 sible for that trouble than the State. Had the trustees not 
 been in controversy with each other, and in controversy with 
 the President, the State undoubtedly would not have inter- 
 fered, and my feeling is that the interference on the part of 
 the State was purely in the interest of the College. The State 
 interfered because it loved the College, and wanted to see it 
 prosper. However, when the decision was reached by the 
 highest judicial tribunal in the land, it settled forever the 
 controversy between the State and the College, and that deci- 
 sion not only proved of the greatest value to Dartmouth, 
 but to every educational institution in America. Permit me 
 to say to the Governor that I believe that the State of New 
 Hampshire has no fault to find with Dartmouth College at 
 the present time. 
 
 During the past fifteen years, covering the efficient and 
 brilliant administration of Doctor Tucker, and including the 
 
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 limited portion of the administration of his successor, I think 
 you will agree with me in saying that Dartmouth has been 
 doing great work. 
 
 Dartmouth is proud of New Hampshire, and New Hamp- 
 shire is proud of Dartmouth. The college is not alone edu- 
 cating New Hampshire boys. Four fifths of all the students 
 at Dartmouth come from outside the limits of New Hampshire, 
 and nearly one half are now coming from outside the limits 
 of New England. We are not alone educating the boys of 
 this State, but we are educating the boys from every part of 
 the Union. What is true of Dartmouth is also true of two 
 of the great preparatory schools located in the State. I refer 
 to your splendid school here in Concord — St. Paul's — and to 
 the ancient academy located at Exeter, where at least four fifths 
 of all the boys come from outside of New Hampshire to be 
 prepared for college within this State. Surely New Hampshire 
 has made her impression upon the country as a state devoted 
 to education. What is it that makes a great state or a great 
 college.'' Greatness of this character is not to be measured 
 by commerce or wealth. A state becomes great by reason of 
 the character of its people, and not by reason of the wealth 
 of its population. And what is true of the state is equally 
 true of the college. A college becomes great because it repre- 
 sents character, and the work which Dartmouth and New 
 Hampshire are doing today is in the development of character, 
 in sending forth to the world strong and reliant men. 
 
 I said a moment ago that it is difficult to even think of 
 New Hampshire without thinking of the College. In the 
 Statuary Hall at Washington this State has placed two statues 
 representing its two foremost men. One is of General Stark, 
 the other of Daniel Webster. You cannot think of General 
 Stark without thinking of New Hampshire. You cannot think 
 of Daniel Webster without thinking of Dartmouth College. 
 They truly represent both the State and the College, and we 
 can name many men now living who fairly represent both the 
 State and the College. I see before me one man well advanced 
 
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 in years, but still a youth in mental and physical action, whose 
 love for New Hampshire and for Dartmouth has always been 
 of the most intense character. I never look into the face of 
 David Cross without being reminded both of New Hampshire 
 and Dartmouth College. 
 
 Let me say to you, Mr. Tuck, that the College as well as 
 the State recognizes the great obligations under which they 
 have been placed by your munificent and timely gifts. These 
 gifts have made Dartmouth more efficient, and have made its 
 sons more loyal and devoted to its cause. You have taught 
 us what a loyal son, who has the means and the disposition 
 to act, can do for the College. Your generous gift to the 
 Historical Society of New Hampshire proves your devotion 
 to your native State, and has made every citizen of New 
 Hampshire feel a little prouder of his own State, and inspired 
 him with greater loyalty to it. May what has already been 
 said prove true, that you and also Mrs. Tuck, who has joined 
 you in this great work, both live long and prosper and be the 
 happier by reason of what you have done. 
 
 Mr. Adams has suggested that while you are engaged in 
 this character of work you come to Massachusetts and con- 
 tinue the work there. My suggestion, however, is that you 
 do not start out on the mission suggested by Mr. Adams until 
 you have fully completed what you had in mind to do for 
 Dartmouth and New Hampshire. 
 
 POEM BY MISS EDNA DEAN PROCTOR 
 
 The Toastmasteh : We have no reason to be ashamed of New Hampshire's 
 place among the poets of our Nation. While Sewall, from whom I have already 
 quoted, in his book of 300 pages wrote only two lines that have made him known, 
 Mbs Proctor has written many poems which are read and loved. She is always 
 faithful to her native Stale and is one of our guests today and has consented to 
 recite her poem, 
 
 "the MOtTNTAIN MAID." 
 
 I introduce to you Miss Edna Dean Proctor. 
 
 There is an ancient saying: "He who honors his birthplace 
 honors himself." What honor, then, has the guest of today 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 77 
 
 who has enriched New Hampshire's historic College and roy- 
 ally housed her records? From Canada to the sea New Hamp- 
 shire is a poet lyric, epic, but I like to represent her as 
 
 THE MOUNTAIN MAID 
 
 O the Mountain Maid, New Hampshire! 
 
 Her steps are light and free, 
 Whether she treads the lofty heights 
 
 Or follows the brooks to the sea! 
 Her eyes are clear as the skies that hang 
 
 Over her hills of snow. 
 And her hair is dark as the densest shade 
 
 That falls where the fir-trees grow — 
 The fir-trees slender and sombre 
 
 That climb from the vales below. 
 
 Sweet is her voice as the robin's 
 
 In a lull of the wind of March 
 Wooing the rosy arbutus 
 
 At the roots of the budding larch; 
 And rich as the ravishing echoes 
 
 On still Franconia's lake 
 When the boatman winds his magic horn 
 
 And the tongues of the wood awake, 
 WTiile the huge Stone-Face forgets to frown 
 
 And the hare peeps out of the brake. 
 
 The blasts of stormy December 
 
 But brighten the bloom on her cheek, 
 And the snows build her statelier temples 
 
 Than to goddess were reared by the Greek. 
 She welcomes the fervid summer. 
 
 And flies to the sounding shore 
 Where bleak Boar's Head looks seaward. 
 
 Set in the billows' roar. 
 And dreams of her saUors and fishers 
 
 Till cool days come once more. 
 
 Then how fair is the maiden, 
 Crowned with the scarlet leaves. 
 
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 And wrapped in the tender, misty veil 
 
 Her Indian Summer weaves ! — 
 While the aster blue, and the goldenrod, 
 
 And immortelles, clustering sweet, 
 From Canada down to the sea have spread 
 
 A carpet for her feet; 
 And the faint witch-hazel buds unfold, 
 
 Her latest smile to greet. 
 
 She loves the song of the reaper; 
 
 The ring of the woodman's steel; 
 The whir of the glancing shuttle; 
 
 The rush of the tireless wheel. 
 But, if war befalls, her sons she calls 
 
 From mill and forge and lea, 
 And bids them uphold her banner 
 
 Till the land from strife is free; 
 And she hews her oaks iuto mighty ships 
 
 That sweep the foe from the sea. 
 
 O the Mountain Maid, New Hampshire! 
 
 For beauty and wit and will 
 I'll pledge her, in draughts from her crystal springs. 
 
 Rarest on plain or hill ! 
 New York is princess in purple 
 
 By the gems of her cities crowned; 
 Illinois with the garland of Ceres 
 
 Her tresses of gold has bound, 
 Queen of the limitless prairies 
 
 Whose great sheaves heap the ground ; 
 
 And out by the vast Pacific 
 
 Their gay young sisters say : 
 " Ours are the mines of the Indies, 
 
 And the treasures of far Cathay"; 
 And the dames of the South walk proudly 
 
 Where the fig and the orange fall 
 And, hid in the high magnolias, 
 
 The mocking thrushes call; 
 But the Mountain Maid, New Hampshire, 
 
 Is the rarest of them all! 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 79 
 
 ADDRESS OF SENATOR JACOB H. GALLINGER 
 
 The Toastmasteh: Constructive statemanship is no ordinary gift. New Hamp- 
 shire has a long line of illustrious men who in this field have sustained the reputa- 
 tion of our State as one of the thirteen colonies which carried on the War of the 
 Revolution and made the constitution. To the toast: 
 
 "new Hampshire's place in the senate of the united states," 
 I call on our senior senator, the Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger, to respond. 
 
 I have been asked to briefly speak to the toast of "New 
 Hampshire in the Senate," and it would be ungracious of 
 me did I not improve the occasion to express my deep appre- 
 ciation of the honor bestowed upon me by the people of the 
 State in repeated elections to that body. When I think of 
 the long list of able men who have represented New Hampshire 
 in the Senate of the United States, the extent of the confidence 
 my fellow-citizens have shown me intensifies the gratitude I 
 have always felt for their generous consideration. 
 
 The Senate of the United States has engaged the attention 
 of writers and speakers from the beginning of the government 
 to the present time, and doubtless will continue to do so as 
 long as the Republic lasts. Of late years men like the late 
 Senator Hoar of Massachusetts have eloquently defended the 
 Senate, contending that it was completely fulfilling the pur- 
 pose of its founders, while the sensationalist and the muck- 
 raker, in New Hampshire as well as elsewhere, have called 
 it the Millionaire's Club, and have charged it with almost 
 every iniquity that could possibly attach itself to a legislative 
 body. After twenty years' observation I believe the Senate 
 is composed of men who equal, in ability and integrity, the 
 membership of any other similar body in the world, while 
 unquestionably its habits of deliberation and conservatism 
 are of the highest value to the best interests of the country. 
 Separated in a measure from popular clamor, it is largely free 
 from influences that might otherwise sway it, and thus it 
 can be relied upon to stand for measures and policies that 
 sometimes are unpopular, and that the future alone can 
 vindicate. 
 
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 "New Hampshire in the Senate" is a theme that calls up 
 both personal recollection and historical fact. From the 
 beginning of the first Congress to the present time New Hamp- 
 shire has had her representatives in the Senate, and they 
 have favorably compared with those who represented other 
 sections of the country in that great forum. Before call- 
 ing attention to some of them it may not be amiss to cite 
 the fact that New Hampshire has contributed to other states 
 some of the ablest senators that have ever held seats in that 
 body. For instance, we gave Daniel Webster to Massachu- 
 setts, Salmon P. Chase to Ohio, William Pitt Fessenden to 
 Maine, Zachariah Chandler and Lewis Cass to Michigan, and 
 James W. Grimes to Iowa, a galaxy of names hard to match 
 anywhere. 
 
 The first two senators from New Hampshire were John 
 Langdon and Paul Wingate, the commencement of their 
 service being March 4, 1789. John Langdon was the first 
 president pro tempore of the Senate, in which position he was 
 shortly followed by Samuel Livermore, another New Hampshire 
 man, and later by Daniel Clark of Manchester. No man in 
 our history has a record that excels that of John Langdon. 
 As I pointed out on a former occasion, shortly after General 
 Stark's resignation from the army the cause of independence 
 was in the greatest possible danger. Washington was driven 
 from post to post; Philadelphia, abandoned by Congress, was 
 taken by the British. A strong British army was marching 
 from Canada, threatening all New England. The outlook 
 was desperate. New Hampshire had done all that she could, 
 and, as public credit was at a low ebb, it was doutbful if another 
 regiment could be raised and supported. The authorities of 
 Vermont had notified New Hampshire that unless speedy 
 assistance was forthcoming the contest must be abandoned. 
 The New Hampshire Assembly, which had adjourned only a 
 short time before, was speedily convened, and the condition 
 of the country was laid before that body. In this important 
 crisis, John Langdon, a merchant of Portsmouth, and speaker 
 of the Assembly, immortalized himself by saying: 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 81 
 
 "I have three thousand dollars in hard money. I will 
 pledge my plate for three thousand more. I have seventy 
 hogshead of Tabago rum, which shall be sold for the most it 
 will bring. These are at the service of the State. If we 
 succeed in defending our firesides and homes I may be remu- 
 nerated. If we do not the property will be of no value to me. 
 Our old friend Stark, who so nobly defended the honor of 
 our State at Bunker Hill, can be safely entrusted with the 
 conduct of the enterprise, and we will check the progress of 
 Burgoyne." 
 
 These patriotic words gave new life to the cause of the 
 struggling colonists. The entire militia of the State was formed 
 in two brigades, one to be commanded by John Stark and the 
 other by William Whipple. The battle of Bennington shortly 
 followed, concerning which Washington said, "One more such 
 stroke and we shall have no great cause of anxiety." The 
 "one more stroke" came speedily in the surrender of Burgoyne. 
 In view of this incident is it not safe to say that one of the first 
 senators from New Hampshire, by his patriotism and gener- 
 osity, turned the tide at a critical moment, and made American 
 independence a reality? 
 
 It would be interesting, did time permit, to call the roll of 
 the men who have represented New Hampshire in the Senate 
 of the United States. I can only name a few at random. 
 Samuel Livermore, Nicholas Oilman, Henry Hubbard, Levi 
 Woodbury, William Plumer, Samuel Bell, Jeremiah Mason, 
 Isaac Hill, Franklin Pierce, Joseph Cilley, John P. Hale, 
 Charles G. Atherton, Daniel Clark, Aaron H. Cragin, Henry 
 W. Blair, James W. Patterson, Bainbridge Wadleigh, Austin 
 F. Pike, Edward H. Rollins and William E. Chandler. In 
 this list are the names of several great lawyers, at the head of 
 which stands the name of Jeremiah Mason, of whom Daniel 
 Webster once said: "If you were to ask me who was the great- 
 est lawyer in the country I should answer John Marshall, but 
 if you took me by the throat, and pinned me to the wall, and 
 demanded my real opinion, I should be compelled to say it 
 
82 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 was Jeremiah Mason." Others might well be added, but those 
 I have named will serve to demonstrate the fact that New 
 Hampshire has been well and ably represented in the upper 
 branch of Congress. 
 
 Within my recollection other strong men like Amos Tuck, 
 Aaron F. Stevens, Orren C. Moore, James F. Briggs, Charles 
 H. Burns, Mason W. Tappan and Thomas M. Edwards have 
 aspired to a place in the Senate. Had any one of them been 
 elected he would have graced the position, and their defeat 
 in no degree dimmed the lustre of their services to the State 
 and Nation. Of these men Amos Tuck, the father of our 
 honored guest, deserves special mention. 
 
 After distinguishing himself in the practice of law Mr. 
 Tuck was elected to the National House of Representatives 
 in 1847, where he served with much distinction for six years. 
 
 Formerly a Democrat he was then known as an "anti- 
 slavery independent," and in 1848 he made a famous anti- 
 slavery speech in Congress. 
 
 Mr. Tuck was always independent in his political views, 
 and if any man in our State deserved the name of " Progressive" 
 it was he. In connection with his Congressional career it is 
 interesting to recall the fact that more than sixty years ago 
 he offered in Congress a resolution in favor of international 
 arbitration, a subject that is now being warmly discussed 
 by the American people and which is before the Senate in 
 the shape of treaties. 
 
 Mr. Tuck stood by John P. Hale when the latter was vio- 
 lently assailed for his Free Soil views, and he was among the 
 first, if not the first, to advocate the abolition of slavery in 
 the District of Columbia. 
 
 While in Congress Mr. Tuck made many speeches which 
 attracted attention, and it was said of him that when he left 
 that body he had conferred lasting distinction on his State, 
 and that his name had the right to be carved with that of 
 John P. Hale as New Hampshire's earliest champion of the 
 cause of human freedom. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 83 
 
 In 1853 Mr. Tuck was instrumental in calling a meeting at 
 Exeter, at which meeting the Republican party was born, 
 Mr. Tuck suggesting the name for the new organization. 
 In 1856 he was elected a delegate to the National Republican 
 Convention at Philadelphia, which convention nominated 
 Fremont, and he was also a delegate to the National Conven- 
 tion of 1860, at which time he renewed his earlier acquaint- 
 ance with Abraham Lincoln, whose election he warmly 
 espoused. Mr. Lincoln had in mind the selection of Mr. 
 Tuck as the New England member of his cabinet, but ulti- 
 mately the place was given to Mr. Welles of Connecticut. 
 Shortly after, however, Mr. Tuck was appointed by President 
 Lincoln to the honorable position of Naval Officer of Customs 
 at the Port of Boston, which place he ably filled. When 
 that service was ended Mr. Tuck retired to private life, 
 devoting his time to business, educational and charitable 
 affairs, and in 1879 he passed away, honored and respected by 
 the people of the State. Such a man would have been a worthy 
 associate in the Senate of the great men who made up that body 
 during the stirring period preceding and following the Civil War. 
 
 In thus recalling to your minds the able men who have 
 represented New Hampshire in the Senate I cannot forego 
 the opportunity of remarking that all of them were men of 
 moderate means, who were the natural selection of their fellow- 
 citizens because of their fitness for this exalted position. For 
 nearly a century and a quarter we have been electing senators 
 from this state, and during that time there has never been a 
 scandal connected with any senatorial election. In some 
 instances the choice has brought keen disappointment to the 
 supporters of candidates who sought this high honor, but that 
 disappointment has not been embittered by the thought 
 that corruption had influenced the selection. 
 
 New Hampshire senators have acted well their part in every 
 emergency. John Langdon rose to the occasion when the 
 Colonial army was in sore straits; John P. Hale valiantly 
 fought the battle of freedom and liberty in the days that 
 
84 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 
 
 tried men's souls; Henry W. Blair was a tower of strength in 
 matters of legislation regarding temperance and education, 
 while in the struggle to save the Nation, to reconstruct the 
 Union, to resume specie payments, to defeat the fallacy of the 
 free and unlimited coinage of silver and secure the adoption 
 of the gold standard, to uphold the doctrine of protection to 
 American industries and American labor, in these and similar 
 crises the senators from New Hampshire have never flinched, 
 or hesitated to do what they conceived to be for the best 
 interests of the American people. With such a record our 
 past is secure, and we can confidently feel that the future is 
 full of promise so far as the material and moral interests of our 
 State are concerned. Our plain duty is to be loyal to the 
 traditions and the institutions which have made us a free, 
 happy, prosperous and enlightened people, and we need have 
 no apprehensions that our representatives in the Senate will 
 not always prove themselves worthy of the confidence and 
 esteem of their fellow-citizens. 
 
 It is undeniable that the tendency of the times is toward 
 a change in the method of electing senators. Something 
 new is demanded. In the place of representative government 
 it is proposed to create something approaching a pure democ- 
 racy. History teaches us that democracies have their perils. 
 Therefore, we who have been guided by the lamp of experi- 
 ence, and who have been taught to venerate the work of those 
 who won our independence and created from the chaos that 
 followed the Revolutionary War a plan of government that 
 commanded the admiration of mankind, should hesitate to 
 make radical changes in the existing system in response to a 
 demand from any quarter. In this matter, as in some others, 
 it may be better to bear the evils that exist, if any do exist, 
 than to fly to those we know not of. If the people of this 
 State have been slow to change the constitutional method of 
 electing senators by taking from their representatives in the 
 Legislature the power of selection and placing it in the hands 
 of the electors it has been undoubtedly due to the results at- 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 85 
 
 tained under our system of government as established by the 
 fathers of the RepubHc. The very able men who have been 
 my predecessors in the Senate from New Hampshire have thus 
 far satisfied our people that the founders of our government 
 acted wisely in the scheme that they, after great deliberation, 
 agreed upon, and no change from that method should be made 
 without the most careful and thorough consideration. 
 
 A single word more. What a splendid example Mr. Tuck 
 has set in his benefactions to Dartmouth College and in the 
 erection of this beautiful structure for the New Hampshire 
 Historical Society. Money was never more appropriately 
 or wisely spent. Long after Mr. Tuck's useful career has 
 come to an end, the people of his native State, upon which he 
 has shed so much lustre, will bless and honor him for his noble 
 and generous deeds. May he long be spared to continue to 
 teach the lessons of love of home, of State and Nation, so pro- 
 foundly and beautifully exemplified in his own life of simplic- 
 ity, of lofty ideals and splendid achievements. 
 
 ADDRESS OF GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE 
 
 The Toastmaster : The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia is the old- 
 est of our allied associations. It was founded and fostered by Benjamin Franklin 
 and was the recipient of the earliest reports of his discoveries. It celebrated its 
 hundredth anniversary not many years ago; our Society had the honor of an 
 invitation and participated in the exercises by the presence of one of our mem- 
 bers. The Society has in turn sent its delegate to our dedication and I am glad to 
 present Prof. George L. Kittredge and proffer our good wishes for the continued 
 prosperity of the old but e\er young 
 
 "AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: OUH OLDEST ALLY." 
 
 One of the eloquent men who preceded me began his re- 
 marks by observing facetiously that, whenever he arose to 
 speak, you might be sure that somebody was not well. My 
 case is worse than his. The personage whom I represent 
 today is dead. For I stand here as the humble representative 
 of Benjamin Franklin, who went to his reward some years 
 ago, though his spirit, I presume, is hovering over us on this 
 occasion. 
 
 The name of the American Philosophical Society, as whose 
 
86 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 humble delegate I appear, is rather terrifying. Why, Ladies 
 and Gentlemen, I have actually been accused, as I sat here at 
 this table, of being a professor of philosophy — which Heaven 
 forbid! The fact is, as you know, that in the old days when 
 the Philosophical Society was founded by Benjamin Franklin, 
 the term "philosophy" covered almost as much as the charter 
 of the New Hampshire Historical Society covers. It covered 
 all knowledge. In particular, the American Philosophical 
 Society was established for the promotion of useful knowledge. 
 Now I come before you. Ladies and Gentlemen, not as a 
 representative of useful knowledge, for very little that I 
 know is of practical use to anybody, but as an advocate of 
 useless learning. One of the purposes of an historical society, 
 I take it, is to store up things that seem to be useless, to foster 
 the investigation of subjects that are of no immediate moment, 
 — and incidentally to ameliorate the condition of the human 
 race. Of course, in describing myself as an advocate of useless 
 learning, I employ the term in a high sense, in an exoteric 
 sense, which (if any of you feel doubtful about it) I must leave 
 you to excogitate for yourself. As Shakespeare says, "the 
 search," at all events, will be "profitable." And to search 
 is undoubtedly the function of all historical societies. That 
 is a golden motto of Shakespeare's— ^Ae search is 'profitable. A 
 man goes out to shoot a rabbit or he goes out to catch a 
 trout. What he brings home may be of slight practical utility. 
 It is the by-products of his little expedition that do the man 
 good. 
 
 There are two points, that I should like to speak of. Brev- 
 ity, however, is imperative; for my time is strictly limited. 
 One of these is the question, propounded by your toastmaster, 
 whether Massachusetts has furnished New Hampshire with 
 a number of laws which your learned jurists find some diffi- 
 culty in interpreting. Very likely that is the fact. But in 
 the neighborhood of Boston, when I am at home, it is com- 
 monly supposed that Dartmouth College has furnished the 
 Suffolk Bar, and Massachusetts in general, with a considerable 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 87 
 
 body of lawj'ers who find it worth their while to interpret the 
 laws of Massachusetts as they are, and as they think they 
 ought to be. 
 
 The other point (and this is all I have time to say, in addi- 
 tion to bringing you the greetings of Benjamin Franklin and 
 of the American Philosophical Society) — the other point is 
 this matter of sifting, which a previous speaker has adverted 
 to. One hears a great deal nowadays about the necessity 
 of sifting the materials that accumulate. "Sift, sift, sift!" 
 is the advice constantly given to librarians and to the cus- 
 todians of documents. Now sifting, in the sense here used, 
 implies rejection — it implies destruction as well as preserva- 
 tion. And that thought should give us pause. Are we quite 
 sure that we know exactly what we ought to throw away? 
 For my own part, I should be perfectly willing to see a general 
 sifting of all the historical material that is piled up in our 
 libraries and our archives, if we could find any sifter who 
 should know how to sift them as people five hundred years 
 hence will wish they had been sifted, if sifted at all! 
 
 ADDRESS OF CHARLES R. CORNING 
 
 The Toastmaster: The City of Concord, first Penacook, then Rumford, nat- 
 urally has always been largely represented in the Historical Society. We who live 
 here are proud that our city b the capital of the State and the center of many of 
 the important interests of our community and we strive to see that high standards 
 of schools, churches and other instruments of culture are maintained. 
 
 I am going to present to you to respond for the city one who has been several times 
 elected mayor, a gentleman of scholarly tastes, and an efficient laborer in the field 
 of historic research. He is also the author of a thoughtful and faithful sketch of 
 the life and services of Amos Tuck, of whom Senator Gallinger has spoken, the father 
 of Edward Tuck, which alone would entitle him to your favorable regard, Judge 
 Charles R. Corning, who will speak to you of 
 
 "concord, the home of the new bamfshibe historical society." 
 
 To speak for Concord is always a pleasure, but on this 
 occasion I esteem it an honor. As a native of Concord I 
 confess to a feeling of pride in responding to this toast. 
 
 It is not permitted us, I believe, to select our birthplace, 
 and, if it were permitted, I can assure you that I should in 
 
88 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 no way have changed the course of nature. Therefore, let 
 me frankly acknowledge my pride and satisfaction to claim 
 New Hampshire for my native state and Concord for my 
 native town. 
 
 As American towns go, Concord has graced our map for 
 almost 200 years, for it was in 1725 that the General Court of 
 Massachusetts granted the charter of Penacook which not long 
 afterward gave way to the more euphonious name of Concord. 
 From the beginning this community has been an epitome, a 
 not unfaithful representation of the history of New England 
 towns. The pioneers penetrating the unbroken wilderness, 
 the early appropriation for the meeting house and the school 
 house, the long and vexatious litigation arising from conflicting 
 boundaries imposed by the General Court of Massachusetts 
 and of New Hampshire, the settlement of these difficulties, and 
 then the natural bent toward politics and the coming of suc- 
 cessive legislatures. At last, in 1816, Concord became the 
 capital of the State. Yet all these things happened within 
 the first hundred years. 
 
 Commerce began with the stage coaches keeping open the 
 commercial intercourse between Canada and tide-water. 
 Then followed the picturesque era of the canal boat and its 
 passing in favor of the railroads; then the shock of war and 
 noble sacrifices making Concord an armed camp for four 
 awful years; then peace and following in its train progress 
 and prosperity. And yet Concord with all this has not builded 
 altogether along the lines that characterize so many New Eng- 
 land towns. In many respects our material development has 
 been very unusual. For some reason the founders of the 
 great cotton industries stopped at a point below us on the 
 river, and there began the gigantic industry which today 
 has become one of the wonders of the age. And yet the 
 music of the Merrimack dancing over Sewall's Falls sounded 
 in their ears as it has sounded since dawn of time in Concord's 
 ears, but it possessed no siren call. 
 
 To explain the silence of the loom and the spindle in Con- 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 89 
 
 cord is not for us today. Concord, as we see it, is in its sixth 
 or seventh generation, an attractive picture of moderate 
 achievement. Strangers visiting us are wont to ask what 
 supports Concord. Statistics even in a historical society are 
 not wholly fascinating, but I want you to know that we have 
 more than fourscore industries turning out finished products 
 amounting to $7,000,000 yearly and employing between three 
 and four thousand wage earners. Let it be said that all this is 
 the aggregation of non-intensive industries and let it go at 
 that. I wonder where the savings of the people express 
 thrift better distributed than in this city. It is an interesting 
 revelation. The population of Concord is 21,500, and we 
 have here four savings banks. The amount in these four 
 savings banks belonging to Concord residents is $7,534,418.68, 
 and the number of resident depositors is 14,662. 
 
 Politically Concord has had a prominent position in the 
 annals of the State and Nation as is natural in a region largely 
 inhabited by orators and politicians as was remarked once 
 upon a time by a jealous New York statesman. I rejoice to 
 say that neglect of New England's strongest traits, support of 
 the common schools, has never been charged to Concord. 
 Schools, the touchstone of American heart and hearth, have 
 ever been precious to our people from the earliest times and 
 never more precious and beloved than now when one third 
 of all the levied taxes goes to our common schools. 
 
 Wealth as popularly understood has never been indigenous 
 in our community. Probably no millionaire citizen has ever 
 walked our streets, yet the well to do among us are astonish- 
 ingly numerous as I have already shown, and these perhaps 
 are some of Concord's distinctions which I may properly 
 mention. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen, Concord welcomes you all on this 
 benign occasion. In the spirit of Auld Lang Syne, which after 
 all should be the spirit actuating our venerable Society, Con- 
 cord gives you her good right hand, and particularly does 
 Concord welcome this distinguished and generous son of 
 
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 New Hampshire who today confers upon the city her richest 
 jewel, a gem amongst the choicest gems that glorify the cities 
 of men. Nor do we forget at this moment the gracious lady 
 whose love of the beautiful has found expression in the mag- 
 nificent gift of her husband. Concord will never forget this 
 day and its splendid gift nor cease to cherish the honored 
 name of Edward Tuck. 
 
 ADDRESS OF FRANK B. SANBORN 
 
 The Toastmaster: It is not the first time that Frank B. Sanborn has contribnted 
 to the instruction and entertainment of the New Hampshire Historical Society. He 
 was born in Hampton Falls, the home and burial place of Meschek Weare, not far 
 from the home of Mr. Tuck. He has been both a maker of history and an author 
 of a valued history of his native state. He is eminently qualified to speak on 
 
 "new HAMPSHIRE HISTORIANS AND HISTORY MAKERS." 
 
 I present Mr. Frank B. Sanborn. 
 
 Following the example of my presiding officer in the Massa- 
 chusetts Historical Society, Mr. Adams, I shall not make the 
 speech which I wrote for this occasion. I shall, however, pre- 
 sent it to the Society with a little story which I learned many 
 years ago from the father of the distinguished sculptor who sits 
 at my right hand. Judge French who lived for a while in our 
 Concord came back from Washington on one occasion, and he 
 said: "What do you suppose the boys in the city of Washing- 
 ton say about Greenough's statue of Washington which is 
 represented in the classic form, almost naked, holding his 
 sword in his hand? The boys make the Father of his Country 
 say: 'Here is my sword. My clothes are up at the Patent 
 Ofiice.'" 
 
 My speech will be found in the archives of the Historical 
 Society, subject to the sifting process of which several gentle- 
 men have already spoken. I shall confine myself to the subject 
 of my discussion which was "New Hampshire Historians 
 and History Makers." I make a distinction. Although I 
 am not quite sure, I believe I am the only living person who 
 has actually written and published a history of New Hamp- 
 shire. Other historians wrote their books and died, but here 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 91 
 
 I am. By historians I mean the persons who engage in works 
 of imagination; for history is a work of imagination. When a 
 historian Hke Mr. Bancroft, or others that might be named, 
 rise so high in their flights of imagination that they get an 
 appreciable, and sometimes an inappreciable distance from 
 the facts, they are then brought down, as a balloon is brought 
 down by its rope, to the Historical Society, and there they 
 find the facts they have been romancing about. 
 
 Now, my examples of history-makers in New Hampshire 
 were confined I think to four who succeeded each other, chron- 
 ologically. One was my ancestor, Edward Gove, who had the 
 distinction, I believe, that no New Hampshire man ever en- 
 joyed before or since, of having been a prisoner in the Tower of 
 London for three years for high treason. He was convicted of 
 high treason on a little island which is now called New Castle, 
 near Portsmouth. He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn 
 and quartered, and although a good many of his descendants 
 have deserved at least a portion of that sentence, 3'et it was 
 the duty of the royal governor, Edward Cranfield, who was 
 certainly one of the greatest scoundrels that ever appeared 
 in New Hampshire, to send him to England and there have 
 him executed by King Charles II. He was sent over, put in 
 the Tower and supported there at the expense of the King of 
 England for about three years, and then James II, finding 
 him perfectly harmless and a good citizen, pardoned him and 
 sent him back to his home in what is now the town of Seabrook, 
 and ordered that his estate which had been confiscated — and 
 that was the principal reason for convicting him of treason, 
 the governor wanting to make a considerable sum out of his 
 property — should be ascertained and restored to him. But 
 so careless had been the Massachusetts authorities, I am sorry 
 to say, that upon investigation we are unable to find on record 
 anywhere in Massachusetts how he got his estate back. His 
 family, however, possessing that quality which Mayor Corn- 
 ing has spoken of, — knowing how to save property, when 
 they once got it, — the sons and daughters of my ancestor, 
 
92 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 contrived to take the property into their own hands (or a consi- 
 derable part of it,) so it should not come under confiscation. 
 Governor Cranfield says in two or three letters to his patron in 
 England, Mr. Blathwayt, that he can only get hold of two 
 hundred pounds of that property, and that not payable for a 
 year to come. In fact, Cranfield was required to get out of 
 the State, followed by the execrations of all the people, before 
 he received more than a hundred pounds from my ancestor's 
 lands and house. 
 
 I pass him by and come to Colonel Weare, who has been 
 mentioned in history several times. He belonged to a family 
 more distinguished in the first century of the existence of New 
 Hampshire as Province and State, than any other. His grand- 
 father was one of the justices of the Province; was sent on a 
 mission to England in Cranfield's time; and I suppose it was 
 Justice Weare who obtained, by his presence and by applying 
 a few pounds to officials in the neighborhood of Whitehall, 
 and by persuading the Earl of Halifax, then president of the 
 Privy Council, that Cranfield was dismissed, a year from the 
 time when Weare was there. Colonel Weare the grandson was 
 in some respects the most remarkable of New Hampshire 
 politicians. He held public office in his town and in the Prov- 
 ince and the State longer I think than any one, holding 
 every office possible, both in town, province and state for more 
 than forty years. He died in 1786 poorer than when he entered 
 active life; made no money out of his long public service, 
 left what little property he had to his children, and that family 
 is now extinct. I think there is no person now bearing the 
 name of Weare descended from the old Colonel, but he con- 
 tributed more than any individual on the battlefield to the 
 success of the Revolution, so far as New Hampshire is con- 
 cerned. 
 
 Then I come to General Stark. Now, we know a great deal 
 about General Stark's service in the field, but here is a little 
 anecdote, giving a record of one of his conversations which I 
 think is worth reading. It comes from the recently published 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 93 
 
 diary of Reverend Doctor Bentley of Salem, who in 1810 
 made a journey from Salem to Manchester, then called Derry- 
 field, to visit General Stark, and this is his record : 
 
 "May 31, 1810. At Gen. Stark's. I delivered him some 
 wine which I told him came from Mt. Olympus, the seat of 
 the heroes after they became gods. 'Yes,' said he, 'after they 
 began to enslave the men they saved. Just like our drunken 
 Arnold's promise, — part, and then betray.' Stark said 'he 
 knew no religion but Virtue: drank no wine but that of his 
 own country: was no god among men. They should accept 
 from Heaven no gifts but Liberty and Virtue.' " 
 
 Bentley added, — "Stark's conversation has no refinement, 
 but deep sincerity. His independent mind gathered little 
 from the history of Religion, but everything from his own 
 generous disposition. His researches from History were small, 
 and his memory of them careless; but he spent all his enthu- 
 siasm in favor of Virtue and Patriotism. He said, 'I flatter no 
 man, — he who flatters me disputes with me; I do not flatter 
 myself,— I have as much pride in my opinions as any man, 
 for they are the heart and soul of me.' 
 
 " I dined with him upon the shad of the Merrimac below his 
 house, and lodged in the family. We talked much; he said, 
 ' The worst embargo is upon the plow and the spinning-wheel. 
 A free people never think themselves dependent upon any 
 people. They exchange, but sell themselves in no bargain.' " 
 
 Stark was a man who, when a special state banner was pro- 
 posed, about the year 1785, after the Revolution, said that 
 it should bear the legend "Freedom and not Conquest," a 
 motto that the United States may well remember. 
 
 As Colonel Weare was dying in my native town, in 1786, 
 Daniel Webster was growing up in childhood at the town of 
 Salisbury (what is now called Franklin), and Webster is my 
 fourth history-maker. These men, Gove, Weare and Stark, 
 had a good deal to do with the history of New Hampshire, 
 and Stark and Weare with the history of the country. Web- 
 ster held a different position. I differ from some of the speakers 
 
94 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 and writers about Webster. Webster was a very distant 
 cousin of mine, so I have every right to speak ill of him; 
 as Wendell Phillips said: "You may safely abuse any man 
 to his cousin." With all his powers of intellect, Webster was 
 one of those over whose defeat history is made, rather than by 
 their chosen leadership in a successful path. He was the 
 champion of losing causes; at first of the separatist Federal 
 party, which could not bear to see power pass away from New 
 England and South Carolina to Virginia and Kentucky; then 
 of the commercial class in New England, contending vainly 
 amidst the clamor of high tariff, against Clay and Pennsyl- 
 vania; then in behalf of the banking interest against the master- 
 ful popularity of Andrew Jackson; then against the annexation 
 of Texas— defeat in all these causes; and finally in a desperate 
 effort to check the rising tide of anti-slavery sentiment, deter- 
 mined to restrict and then to destroy negro slavery. To offset 
 all this negation — sometimes right, and often wrong, but 
 always defeated— Webster is to be admired, and now, perhaps 
 more than ever, for his splendid oratory and his magnificent 
 leadership, with the intrepid support of Jackson, in the cause 
 of Union and Liberty against Secession and Slavery. Webster 
 did not live to see the final triumph of that righteous cause; 
 he even did something in his old age to retard it; but his argu- 
 ments and noble words were incentives to contest and victory, 
 while he slept in his lonely tomb at Marshfield. 
 
 I want to say a few words about my old friend, Amos Tuck, 
 whom I knew many years ago, and who was all that has been 
 said in his praise by the orators today. Amos Tuck led in 
 a movement which rescued the State of New Hampshire from 
 the control of the pro-slavery democracy. He and one of his 
 friends called the first convention that led to the organization 
 of what were then called "Independent Democrats," and he 
 properly became their representative in Congress afterwards. 
 He was a very genial, amiable and pleasant companion, and 
 he had a great many good stories. He also is a cousin of mine. 
 Mr. Edward Tuck does not know that I am his fifth cousin on 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 95 
 
 both sides. I found, when I looked up our genealogy, that 
 my father by one intermarriage was the third and by another 
 marriage he was the fourth cousin, of Amos Tuck, so I have a 
 sort of a half and half relation to Mr. Edward Tuck. His father 
 was not born in the old town of Hampton; he was born in Maine, 
 but came to Hampton to be educated; and the Hampton 
 stories he told me, I think have some reference to the objects 
 of the New Hampshire Historical Society. One of them relates 
 to the shape of the earth and the other to the propagation of 
 truth. He said there was an old carpenter in Hampton when 
 he was fitting for college at Hampton Academy, who had not 
 been instructed by the American Philosophical Society. As 
 he was hewing a log one day, while young Tuck was going to 
 the academy, he stopped Mr. Tuck (being a genial person) 
 and also stopped his hewing, and he said: "What be they 
 teachin' on you up to the cattemy? They say the world's 
 round. If I had 'em here, I'd stick my broad ax into 'em." 
 The other story is a parable for historians, and I find they 
 frequently need it. Mr. Tuck said there was a little boy in 
 Hampton, — I didn't inquire his surname, for fear it might 
 be a distant cousin. His front name was Sam, and he was 
 very much given to romancing. One day he came to his 
 mother and told her one of these great stories, and she said: 
 " Sammy, I don't know what's going to happen to you if you go 
 on telling such lies. Don't you remember what I read you out 
 of the Bible the other day about Ananias and Sapphira, — how 
 they told a lie and fell down dead." 
 
 "Oh, yes," said Sam. "I 'members; I was at the funeral." 
 I have met historians (I belong to that class myself), who seem 
 to have taken lessons in the same school with little Sam; and 
 I hope the New Hampshire Historical Society will prevail 
 upon such persons to examine the facts before they publish 
 their books. 
 
APPENDICES 
 
APPENDICES 
 
 THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY* 
 
 By Henry McFarland 
 
 November, 1908 
 RETROSPECTIVE 
 
 The New Hampshire Historical Society regards the picturesque city of 
 Portsmouth as its birthplace, and the date as May 20, 1823. There is a 
 record of an earlier meeting of certain of its friends at Exeter, that attrac- 
 tive seat of learning, on March 13 of the same year. The Society's charter 
 is dated June 13, 1823, and its home has been in Concord since that date. 
 It has always been fortunate in its membership. On its early records 
 are among others the names of Jeremiah Mason, Levi Woodbury, Ichabod 
 Bartlett and Nathaniel A. Haven of Portsmouth; Oliver W. B. Peabody 
 of Exeter; William Plumer of Epping; Joel Parker of Keene, and John 
 Farmer and Jacob B. Moore of Concord. These men would impart char- 
 acter and impetus to any undertaking. All had scholarly tastes. Many of 
 them were learned in the law. In 1823 Levi Woodbury was Governor of 
 the State and he was afterward Secretary of the Treasury of the United 
 States; William Plumer had been Governor; Ichabod Bartlett was then 
 a member of Congress; Jeremiah Mason had been a United States Senator; 
 Joel Parker was afterward chief justice of the New Hampshire Courts, and 
 Oliver W. B. Peabody was a poet of no mean celebrity. Of them all none 
 were more useful and more resourceful in forwarding the objects of the 
 Society than John Farmer, the genial apothecary, and Jacob B. Moore, 
 the publisher and printer. The work of these two in historical directions 
 is well known. The first gift to the library of the Society was a volume 
 from the last named gentleman. The first considerable money gift was 
 the sum of twenty dollars from Levi Woodbury. 
 
 At the outset it was intended to limit the membership of the Society to 
 fifty resident and fifty honorary members, but this purpose was afterward 
 enlarged. In the few succeeding years up to 1840 the records show among 
 others as resident members Matthew Harvey, Samuel D. Bell, Nathaniel 
 P. Rogers, Isaac Hill, Nathaniel G. Upham, Philip Carigain, William H. Y. 
 
 ♦Major Henry McFarland died May 15, 1911. This sketch was prepared to be read at 
 the laying of the comer stone. 
 
100 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 Hackett, Nathan Lord, Jeremiah Smith, Ira Perley, Asa McFarland, and 
 Nathaniel Bouton, and as honorary members Nathaniel H. Carter, Joseph 
 E. Worcester, Lewis Cass and George Bancroft. The later roll of resident 
 membership, which includes persons from all over the State, would be at 
 least as interesting, but would of course be too long for reproduction here. 
 Hon. Amos Tuck was elected to membership in 1853. The name of Hon. 
 Joseph B. Walker has been on the Ust of resident members longer than 
 that of any other Uving person, it having been there since 1845. 
 
 Hon. Wilham Plumer was the first president of the Society, John Farmer, 
 recording secretary, and Jacob B. Moore its first librarian. 
 
 At the early meeting in Portsmouth, which has already been mentioned, 
 a Constitution was adopted which provided that "the objects of the Society 
 shall be to discover, procure and preserve whatever may relate to the 
 natural, civil, ecclesiastical and literary history of the United States in 
 general, and of this State in particular." 
 
 The income of the Society for the first year of its existence was $115, 
 made up of nineteen membership fees and the gift from Hon. Levi Wood- 
 bury which is above mentioned. 
 
 Ten years after its beginning the Society's library was in an upper room 
 of the south wing of the State House, and its annual meetings were then 
 and afterward held either in the Senate Chamber or the Council Room 
 of the State. It was an early custom to have an annual public address of 
 historical or biographical character deUvered in the hall of the House of 
 Representatives. These interesting addresses, many of which have been 
 printed in the Society's Collections, have since been more frequent, and 
 the place of delivery has finally become the Society's own premises. This 
 early use of the State House suggests the kindly view which the representa- 
 tives of the State took toward the objects of the Society, useful as they are 
 both to the community and to the individual citizen. 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Society, June 10, 1835, a committee was 
 appointed to ask the Legislature to grant an appropriation sufficient to 
 erect a suitable building for the Society's use. If this proposal had found 
 favor, it is almost certain that in that day of small things a building then 
 deemed suflScient would in a few later years have proven quite insufficient. 
 
 The income of the Society has never been burdensome, and the expenses 
 have been kept within suitable Hmits. In 1841 copies of its charter, by- 
 laws, and list of members were furnished gratuitously by a Concord printer. 
 A debt of one hundred dollars, created on some hopeful occasion, existed 
 for several years, but was paid in 1859 by a gift of that sum from Hon. 
 Samuel D. Bell. There was deliberation for a long time about builcUng a 
 suitable fence around the monument on the Hopkinton road, entrusted to 
 the Society by Hon. Richard Bradley, which commemorates the locality 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 101 
 
 of the fight with the Indians in 1746, but finally the fence was built about 
 1870, from funds provided by Mrs. Harvey Jewell, a daughter of Mr. 
 Bradley. If its income had been larger, the library and accomplishments 
 of the organization would doubtless have been greater, but on the whole 
 it seems suitable to say that the course of the Society has lain for the most 
 part among the Fortunate Isles. 
 
 In 1872 there was talk of raising a permanent fund of $5,000, and this 
 purpose was gradually effected and enlarged. 
 
 In 1874 the membership of the Society included one hundred and thirty- 
 seven active resident members, and in 1884 the library was found to con- 
 tain more than ten thousand volumes. A very considerable accession 
 came to the library in June, 1873, as the gift of Hon. Charles H. Bell, being 
 books by New Hampshire authors or printed by New Hampshire printers. 
 In 1877 Hon. Lorenzo Sabine, a native of Lisbon, this state, author of 
 "Loyalists of the American Revolution," died in Massachusetts. It 
 appeared by an unexecuted codicil to his will that it was his purpose to 
 bequeath his valuable library to the Society. This purpose was confirmed 
 and recently executed by his family — an instance of the good fortune to 
 which allusion has been made. There have been further valued gifts, 
 either antiquities, autographs, books, coins, portraits, or revolutionary 
 relics from various individual friends. The memorials and letters of 
 Daniel Webster given by Peter Harvey are priceless, and the memorials of 
 Abraham Lincoln given by William E. Chandler and Edward Ashton 
 Rollins are at least as precious. An interesting collection of photographs 
 of New Hampshire men has recently been presented by the New Hamp- 
 shire Club. 
 
 Among a considerable number of portraits in oil colors are those of 
 Daniel Webster, Jeremy Belknap, Peter Harvey, Franklin Pierce, Dudley 
 Leavitt, William C. Todd, Nathaniel Bouton, Benjamin Pierce, Abraham 
 Burnham and Nathaniel G. Upham. There is a bust of Daniel Webster 
 which seems to be a cast from the original marble by Hiram Pov/ers, the 
 history of which cannot just now be ascertained, and one of the Marquis 
 de Lafayette presented by Benjamin A. Kimball. The latter is placed on 
 a marble shaft found in the ruins of ancient Rome. Other gifts of books 
 and objects of historic or artistic interest have been tendered to the Society 
 for its acceptance if deemed desirable when there shall be space for such. 
 
 The hbrary now contains about 15,000 volumes, also very many pam- 
 phlets and manuscripts and files of newspapers, bound and unbound. Not 
 long ago a considerable number of its books which were deemed not essen- 
 tial for the Society's purposes, and which were dupUcatcs of more complete 
 collections in the State Library were donated to other libraries, and by that 
 means needed space was obtained. The reading room of the library is the 
 
102 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 frequent resort of persons from far and near who are engaged in historical 
 research for both public and private purposes, and it is the testimony of 
 those who prepared the new History of Concord that without the use of 
 this library that undertaking could not have been satisfactorily performed. 
 In fact, the writers of every considerable town history in the State have 
 been indebted to this library for material. 
 
 The Society has published from time to time ten volumes of Historical 
 Collections and four volumes of its own Proceedings. These issues can be 
 found in many public libraries throughout the United States. 
 
 There are now about one hundred and fifty names on the active resident 
 list of members. 
 
 PROSPECTIVE 
 
 It has been stated on a preceding page that the first location of the 
 Society's library was in a room of the State House. In 1837 the hall over 
 the Concord Bank (now No. 51 North Main Street) was so occupied. 
 In 1841 there had been a removal thence to the larger hall over the Merri- 
 mack County Bank. In this building the library and the interesting 
 collection of antiquities and portraits (in oils and photography) have since 
 remained. In 1869 the gifts of about one hundred friends ($3,200) enabled 
 the Society to become the owner of the building, and in 1872 the sum of 
 $1,180 was raised by subscription to adapt it to the Society's exclusive 
 use. In 1896 the sum of $4,000 from the current funds of the Society was 
 expended in further improvements. In 1898 by the expenditure of $1,800 
 the Society secured adjacent land. At the annual meeting in 1900, Hon. 
 William C. Todd of Atkinson offered $5,000 toward a fund for an addition 
 to the Library building, on condition that a like sum be contributed by 
 others. The condition was fulfilled, and in a short time $10,000 was 
 paid into the treasury and made the beginning of the library building 
 fund. To this the trustees of the John H. Pearson fund have more recently 
 added $5,000, and $5,000 more has come as a legacy from the estate of 
 Nathaniel Sherman Bouton, late of Chicago. Other considerable gifts 
 toward this purpose have been paid into the treasury, and further pledges 
 have been made. About $20,000 more is needed to extinguish the cost 
 of the new building site, and there should ultimately be a large addition 
 to the permanent fund for maintenance. Toward such maintenance the 
 State contributes the sum of $500 annually. 
 
 In 1903 a committee, which had been appointed to consider making an 
 addition to the present building or constructing a new one, reported that 
 it was inexpedient to make the addition, and that the fund was insufiicient 
 to construct a suitable new fire-proof building. Somewhat later Mr. 
 Edward Tuck, formerly of Exeter, now of Paris, France, an exceedingly 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 103 
 
 generous friend of Dartmouth College (from which he was graduated in 
 1862) and of various other good causes at home and abroad, interested 
 himself in a plan to construct a building, sufficient for all the objects of the 
 Society, which would be an enduring example of classical architecture. 
 For such a building the site which commended itself to Mr. Tuck, and to 
 others, is the one which has been chosen, having frontage on three streets — 
 State, Park and Green. This site is near the State House (the first home 
 of the Society's books) and the State Library, and the new building planned 
 by Mr. Guy Lowell, architect, which the munificence of Mr. Tuck has made 
 possible, is one of the most noteworthy of a group clustered in a neighbor- 
 hood that in general impressiveness is scarcely excelled in New England. 
 
 Of the donor of the new building the Genealogical History of New Hamp- 
 shire says: 
 
 "The most noticeable characteristic of Mr. Tuck is his desire that those 
 within the range of his friendship shall share in the good fortune which 
 has attended his efforts. His private benefactions are constant and gen- 
 erous, though discriminating. Of his public benefactions the most marked 
 has been the gift of $500,000 to his 'Alma Mater' for purposes of instruc- 
 tion, followed by the gift of $135,000 for a lecture and recitation hall. 
 This gift made in 1899 bears the name of the Amos Tuck Endowment 
 Fund, and is a memorial to his honored father who was a graduate of 
 Dartmouth in 1835 and a trustee of the college from 1857 to 1866. This 
 gift is significant of IVIr. Tuck's thoughtful generosity in that it was alto- 
 gether unsolicited, the expression of his loyalty and affection both for his 
 father and for his 'Alma Mater.' . . . Mr. Tuck has kept alive his early 
 interest in Uterature and art. His leisure, if such it may be called, is only 
 the larger opportunity for the exercise of a well trained mind. Though 
 for many years a resident of Paris, Mr. Tuck keeps his house in New York, 
 and is a member of the Metropolitan and the Union clubs. Few men are 
 better informed in regard to political as well as economic and financial 
 conditions in this country." 
 
 The designs for the new building, made by Mr. Guy Lowell after patient 
 study and reflection, indicate an edifice so attractive that in the near 
 future the number of visitors and students seeking the Society's premises 
 will doubtless be greatly enlarged. 
 
 MR. LOWELL'S DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING. 
 
 "The proposed building for the New Hampshire Historical Society is 
 to be of classic dignity. The exterior, all of granite, is designed in the 
 Greek Doric spirit, the forward pavillions being each marked by two mas- 
 sive columns of that order. 
 
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 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING 
 
 The entrance is accentuated by two columns flanking the large door, 
 above which is the seal of the Society in bold relief. 
 
 The entrance vestibule leads directly to the memorial hall, thirty-two 
 feet in diameter, all in marble. 
 
 At the left is the large reading room, fifty-seven by thirty-one feet, 
 designed on the alcove system, where may be kept ten thousand volumes. 
 Directly above is the stack room where may be stored forty thousand 
 volumes. 
 
 The librarian's office and storage vault for valuable documents directly 
 join the library. 
 
 At the right of the memorial hall is the lecture room, with platform. 
 This room will seat three hundred persons. 
 
 A monumental staircase leads directly from the memorial hall to the 
 floor above, where there is a large exhibition room and three smaller rooms 
 for exhibits or collections. 
 
 The whole building is to be fire-proof throughout, of the most modern 
 construction, completely equipped in every way. 
 
 The interior as well as the exterior will be of a dignified, monumental 
 type, a fitting home for the New Hampshire Historical Society." 
 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 105 
 
 II 
 
 LETTERS 
 
 FROM THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE 
 
 Aaibassade 
 De La Republique Francaise, 
 Aux Etats-Unis 
 
 WAsmNGTON, November 12, 1911. 
 Dear Sir: — 
 
 I have delayed somewhat answering the Historical Society's most kind 
 and tempting invitation in the hope of being able to disentangle myself 
 from obligations I have for next week, but they proved too tight for me, 
 and I have quite reluctantly to say that it will not be possible for my wife 
 and me to be present at the banquet of the 23rd. 
 
 Any one who knows Mr. Edward Tuck, and you all know him, you know 
 him well, will understand our regret: no need to insist on it. But I want 
 to say that we in France, in no way yield to any one, nay not even to you, 
 in our admiration of and gratitude for this model citizen of the other great 
 Republic, a man of few words and many deeds, who is welcome to be as 
 modest as he chooses, but of whom you and we may truly be proud — ^you 
 and we, since he hails from your country, and since, to all appearances, he 
 does not dislike ours; an upholder, wherever he lives, of liberal ideas, of 
 that peculiar kind of liberalism which combines with warmth of heart and 
 ever ready generosity. 
 
 With best wishes for your Society whose prosperity is now more than 
 ever assured, thanks to your guest of honor, I beg you to believe me. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 JUSSEEAND, 
 
 French Ambassador. 
 Mr. H. A. Kimball, 
 Recording Secretary, 
 
 N. H. Historical Society, 
 Concord, N. H. 
 
106 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 FROM HONORABLE JOHN BIGELOW 
 
 21 Gramercy Park, 
 November 8th, 1911. 
 Mr. Henry A. Kimball, 
 
 Recording Secretary of the New 
 Hampshire Historical Society. 
 Dear Sir: — 
 
 I beg to make my cordial thanks acceptable to your Historical Society 
 for its invitations to the dedication of its Library Building and to the 
 banquet in honor of my valued friend Edward Tuck. 
 
 I greatly regret that I dare not promise myself the pleasure of accepting 
 either of these invitations. 
 
 My health is much too precarious for so long a journey in this season 
 of the year. It would be a great pleasure to meet with your Society on 
 the 23rd instant if for no other reason than to congratulate it upon having 
 such a friend as Edward Tuck, as for many years I have congratulated 
 myself upon having such a friend. Unlike too large a proportion of men 
 who love to praise their own works Mr. Tuck prefers to let his works praise 
 him. 
 
 I commend him as an excellent example for all the world to imitate. 
 
 Yours very respectfully, 
 
 John Bigelow. 
 
 FROM GENERAL HORACE PORTER 
 
 2T7 Madison Avenue, New York. 
 Dear Sir: — 
 
 I write this to express more particularly my profound regret at being 
 unable to be present at the Dedication of the Library Building and to 
 unite with you in doing honor to my old and highly esteemed friend Mr. 
 Edward Tuck. 
 
 The gift of this building is very characteristic of him. His generosity and 
 liberality displayed upon so many occasions in Paris and elsewhere have 
 endeared him to the hearts of all the Americans abroad as well as the French, 
 His charities have been princely. I congratulate your Society most heart- 
 ily as the recipient of the gift it has received and in having for a donor 
 such a friend and well-wisher as Mr. Tuck. 
 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 Horace Porter. 
 
 November 17, 1911. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 107 
 
 FROM BARON D'ESTOURNELLES DE CONSTANT 
 
 Republique Francaise 
 Senat 
 
 Paris, November 18, 1911. 
 
 To the Hun. B. A. Kimball, N. H. Historical Society of Concord, New Hamp- 
 sh ire. 
 
 Dear Sirs: — 
 
 I wish I could be present at the banquet given in honor of my friend 
 Edward Tuck by the New Hampshire Historical Society of Concord on 
 Thursday next, November 23rd. Unfortunately your kind invitation 
 arrived not only too late for me to write you in time, but a few months 
 after I came back myself from my "inoubliable" visit to the United States. 
 
 I am very sorry to miss this unexpected opportunity to hear many 
 things which I did ignore completely and to tell you some other things 
 which you probably do not know. 
 
 Indeed I knew absolutely nothing of the great work which our mutual 
 friend Mr. Tuck has been preparing for several years in America; I see him 
 very often; I thought I knew most of his efforts for supporting the great 
 and good causes; but I confess that he never said a word about Concord 
 and about your Society, except for praising warmly what his friends do 
 there, exactly as if he had done nothing himself. 
 
 Very likely you ignore in America that he is doing in France all that is 
 in his power to help, to serve, to encourage and to recomfort so many good 
 people who need assistance. 
 
 One country was not enough for the expansion of his heart; you honor 
 him as an American citizen; we love him as a Frenchman. 
 
 His devotion to so many different duties is fortified and multiplied by 
 the constant co-operation of his wife, Mrs. Tuck, always ready to agree 
 with him in order to give not only materially, but morally, her life and his 
 life to liberal and human enterprises. 
 
 The difBcully is to know who is the first of them to start these enter- 
 prises, as they never speak of them; but the less they speak, the more 
 their friends have the duty to give them, as you have done by organizing 
 your banquet, as an example. 
 
 Be good enough, dear sir, to interpret my deep regrets not to have been 
 present at your banquet and please express them on behalf of many French 
 people to the many American friends of Mr. and Mrs. Tuck. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 (Signed) d'Estournelles de Constant. 
 
MEMBERSHIP 
 
MEMBERSHIP 
 
 ACTIVE MEMBERS 
 
 Abbott, Frances M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Abbott, Isaac N., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Abbott, John B., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Aiken, Edwin J., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Albin, John H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Amen, Harlan P., Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Amsden, Harry H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Anderson, Helen D., (Mrs. Henry W.) Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Anderson, Henry W., Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Andrews, Frank P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Atwater, Mrs. Harriet Stark Chase, Pasadena, Cal. 
 
 Baer, Mrs. Annie W., Dover, N. H. 
 
 Baker, Dana W., Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Baker, Henry M., Bow, N. H. 
 
 Baker, Martha A., (Mrs. Walter S.) Concord, N. H. 
 
 Baker, Walter S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Bancroft, Charles P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Barney, Ernest A., Canaan, N. H. 
 
 Bartlett, Benjamin T., Derry, N. H. 
 
 Bartlett, John J., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Barton, Jesse M., Newport, N. H. 
 
 Bass, Robert P., Peterborough, N. H. 
 
 Batchelder, Florence J., (Mrs. J. Roland), Pembroke, N. H. 
 
 Batchellor, Albert S., Littleton, N. H. 
 
 Bell, Louis, West Newton, Mass. 
 
 Bennett, Harold H., Portsmouth, N. H, 
 
 Benton, Josiah H., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Bethune, Sallie L. M. (Mrs. Thomas C), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Binet, Maude B., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Blake, Amos J., Fitzwilliam, N. H. 
 
 Blake, Harold H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Blanchard, Amos, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Blanchard, John S., Alhambra, Cal. 
 
 Brackett, Arma L., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Ill 
 
112 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 Brennan, James F., Peterborough, N. H. 
 
 Brown, Annie D. (Mrs. Frank E.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Brown, Edmund H., Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Brown, Elisha R., Dover, N. H. 
 
 Brown, George H., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Brown, John H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Browne, George Waldo, INIanchester, N. H. 
 
 Burbank, William W., Webster, N. H. 
 
 Burleigh, Alvin, Plymouth, N. H. 
 
 Burnliam, Henry E., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Burroughs, Sherman E., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Busiel, John T., Laconia, N. H. 
 
 Buxton, Willis G., Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Carpenter, Aretas B., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Carpenter, Frank P., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Caipenter, Josiah, Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Carpenter, Philip, New York City. 
 
 Carr, Clarence E., Andovej, N. H. 
 
 Carr, Ella, Andover, N. H. 
 
 Carter, Nathan F., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Carter, Solon A., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Cass, Arthur T., Tilton, N. H. 
 
 Cavis, Harry M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Chamberlain, Mrs. Nellie P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Chamberlain, Robert N., Berlin, N. H. 
 
 Chandler, William E., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Chase, Arthur H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Chase, Charles P., Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Chase, John C, Derry Village, N. H. 
 
 Chase, William M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Churchill, Winston, Cornish, N. H. 
 
 Cilley, Harry B., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Clark, A. Chester, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Clarke, Martha C. B. (Mrs. Arthur E.), Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Chfford, Thomas F., Franklin, N. H. 
 
 Conn, Granville P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Cook, George, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Corning, Charles R., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Couch, Benjamin W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Cross, Alvnn B., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Cummings, George E., Woodsville, N. H. 
 
 Currier, Mrs. Hannah A., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Dana, Samuel H., Exeter, N. H. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 113 
 
 Daniel, Warren F., Franklin, N. H. 
 
 Da\as, Mrs. Dora D., Tilton, N. H. 
 
 Day, Roselle M. (Mrs. Harry B.), Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 De Merritt, Albert, Durham, N. H. 
 
 De Merritt, Jennie M., Dover, N. H. 
 
 Demond, Fred C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Denio, Herbert W., Hopkinton, N. H. 
 
 Derby, J. Clare, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Dowst, John, Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Drury, Samuel S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Dudley, Albertus T., Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Dudley, Anne M. (Mrs. Harry H.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Dudley, Ariana S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Dudley, Frances P., (Mrs. Albertus T.), Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Dudley, Harry H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Durgin, Mrs. Martha E., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Eastman, Edwin G., Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Eastman, John R., Andover, N. H. 
 
 Eastman, Mrs. Mary W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Elkin, Caroline J. (Mrs. William W.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Elwyn, Alfred L., Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Estabrook, Fred W., Nashua, N. H. 
 
 Evans, Mrs. Pauline L., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Felker, Mary D. (Mrs. Samuel D.), Rochester, N. H. 
 
 Ferguson, Henry, Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Fernald, Geo. A., Winchester, Mass. 
 
 Fernald, Josiah E., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Fiske, WilUam P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Fletcher, Almira M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Flint, William W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Folson, William H., Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Foote, Charles E., Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Foster, Mrs. Grace E., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Foster, William A., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Foster, WilHam H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Fowler, Clara M., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Fox, D. Warren, Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Freeman, Edith S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Freeman, Leverett N., Providence, R. I. 
 
 Frost, Margaret B., Durham, N. H. 
 
 Gallinger, Jacob H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Gay, George W., Chestnut Hill, Brookline, Mass. 
 
 George, John P., Concord, N. H. 
 
114 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 Gile, John M., Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Oilman, Daniel, Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Oilman, Minnie C. (Mrs. Daniel), Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Gooding, Alfred, Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Goodrich, Caroline T. W. (Mrs. James B.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Goodrich, James B., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Graves, Eli E., Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Grimes, James W., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Hackett, Frank W., New Castle, N. H. 
 
 Hackett, Wallace, Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Hadley, Geo. P., Goffstown, N. H. 
 
 Haffenreffer, R. F., Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
 
 Hall, Arthur W., Dover, N. H, 
 
 Hall, Daniel, Dover, N. H. 
 
 Hall, Dwight, Dover, N. H. 
 
 Hall, Frances S. (Mrs. D wight), Dover, N. H. 
 
 Hall, Harriet J., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Hall, Sophia D. (Mrs. Daniel), Dover, N. H. 
 
 Hammond, Otis 0., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Harrinian, Mrs. Jessie B., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Harrington, William F., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Hazlett, Charles A., Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Henry, John H., Lincoln, N. H. 
 
 Hill, Cora H. (Mrs. Edson J.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hill, Edson, J., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hill, Howard F.. Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hill, Laura S. (Mrs. Howard F.), Concord, N, H. 
 
 Hill, William W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hirst, Edgar C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hodgman, Anne H., (Mrs. Burns P.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hodgman, Burns P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Holbrook, Harry S., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Holden, Adam P., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Holden, Paul R., Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Hollis, Allen, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hood, William E., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Howard, Alfred F., Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Howe, DeWitt C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Humphrey, Mrs. Ida C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hunt, Marion H. (Mrs. Woodbury E.), Concord, N. H, 
 
 Hunt, Woodbury E., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Huntress, Harriet L., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hurd, Eva G, (Mrs. Clarence I.), Dover, N. H. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 115 
 
 Jacknian, Charles L., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Jackman, Lyman, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Jackson, Thomas M., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Jaques, Wilham W., Little Boar's Head, N. H. 
 
 Jenks, Barton P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Jewett, Mary R., South Berwick, Me. 
 
 Jewett, Stephen S., Laconia, N. H. 
 
 Jones, Charles C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Keeler, I. Eugene, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kelley, John W., Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Kent, John F., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kent, Prentiss M., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Keyes, Henry W., Haverhill, N. H. 
 
 Killeen, Mrs. Jessie G., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kimball, Herbert M., Hopkinton, N. H. 
 
 Kimball, Willis G. C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Knowlton, John G. W., Exeter, N. H. 
 
 Knox, Charles S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Ladd, Fred N., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Lamb, Fred W., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Leach, Edwin G., Franklin, N. H. 
 
 Leavitt, Ashley D., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Leighton, George B., Dublin, N. H. 
 
 Locke, Arthur H., Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Luce, Thomas D., Nashua, N. H. 
 
 Lund, Joseph W., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Lund, Mrs. Lydia F., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Lyford, James O., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Martin, Francis C, Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 Mathews, Joseph S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Mattice, Edson H., Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Maynard, Frank, Nashua, N. H. 
 
 McCollester, Sulhvan H., Marlborough, N. H. 
 
 McFarland, Annie A., Concord, N. H. 
 
 McFarland, WiUiam K., Concord, N. H. 
 
 McMurphy, Jesse G., Derry, N. H. 
 
 Merrill, Louis C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Merrow, Lyford A., Center Ossipee, N. H. 
 
 Metcalf, Henry H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Mitchell, John M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Morrill, Lilla W. (Mrs. Obadiah), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Morris, George F., Lancaster, N. H. 
 
 Morrison, Henry C, Concord, N. H. 
 
116 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 Morrison, Mortier L., Peterborough, N. H. 
 
 Moses, William H., Tilton, N. H. 
 
 Musgrove, Frank A., Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Nichols, Ernest R, Hanover, N. H. 
 
 Niles, Mary, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Niles, WiUiam W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Northcott, Mrs. Elizabeth A., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Noyes, Harriette, Hampstead, N. H. 
 
 Noyes, Mary B., Chester, N. H. 
 
 Nute, Eugene P., Farmington, N. H. 
 
 Nutter, John P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Odlin, Herbert W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Ordway, Mrs. Sarah J., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Owen, Stanton, Laconia, N. H. 
 
 Page, Ehvin L., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Parker, Charles S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Parker, Edward M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Parker, Samuel S., Farmington, N. H. 
 
 Parker, Walter M., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Parks, Isabel M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Parsons, Frank N., Franklin, N. H. 
 
 Patterson, Joab N., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Pearson, Edward N., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Pecker, J. Eastman, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Pender, John, Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Pike, E. Bertram, Pike, N. H. 
 
 Pillsbury, Frank J., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Pillsbury, Rosecrans W., Londonderry, N. H. 
 
 Plummer, Wilham A., Laconia, N. H. 
 
 Preston, George C, Henniker, N. H. 
 
 Preston, Harry B., Henniker. N. H. 
 
 Proctor, Frank, Franklin, N. H. 
 
 Quinby, Henry B., Lakeport, N. H. 
 
 Reed, George H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Remick, Charles G., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Richards, William F., Newport, N. H. 
 
 Riley, Mrs. Anna M. Chandler, Claremont, N. H. 
 
 Robinson, Mrs. Julia A., Derry, N. H. 
 
 Rolfe, Abial W., Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Rolfe, Geo. H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Rolfe, Jennie C. (Mrs. Benjamin S.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Rollins, Frank W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Rollins, Katherine P. (Mrs. Frank W.), Concord, N. H. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 117 
 
 Rounds, Sarah E. (Mrs. Holmes B.), Dover, N. H. 
 
 Rowell, Clara E., Franklin, N. H. 
 
 Sanders, Charles H., Penacook, N. H. 
 
 Sanders, Loren A., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Sargeant, Frank W., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Sawyer, William H., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Scott, Henry K. W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Scudder, Willard, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Seward, Josiah L., Keene, N. H. 
 
 Shepard, Frank E., Bismarck, N. D. 
 
 Shepard, Mrs. Marion T., Ponkapog, Mass. 
 
 Smith, Emma L. (Mrs. John B.), Hillsborough, N. H. 
 
 Smith, Jeremiah, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Smith, John B., Hillsborough, N. H. 
 
 Smith, Jonathan, Clinton, Mass. 
 
 Snow, Sydney B., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Spaulding, WilHam E., Nashua, N. H. 
 
 Spaiihoofd, Edward, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Stark, Annie Mc. N. (Mrs. Chas. F. M.), Dunbarton, N. H. 
 
 Stearns, Ezra S., Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
 Stevens, Mrs. Frances C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Stevens, Margaret F., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Stevens, William L., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Stillings, Ferdinand A., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Streeter, Frank S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Streeter, LiUian C. (Mrs. Frank S.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Streeter, Thomas W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Sullivan, Timothy P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Sulloway, Alvah W., Franklin Falls, N. H. 
 
 Sulloway, Frank J., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Swart, William D., Nashua, N. H. 
 
 Tennant, James B., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Thayer, Lucius H., Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Thayer, WilUam F., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Thayer, WiUiam W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Thompson, Mrs. Matilda S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Thompson, Willis D., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Thorndike, Effie M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Thome, John C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Thorne, Mary G. (Mrs. John C), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Tibbetts, Charles W., Dover, N. H. 
 
 Tibbetts, John Knox, Concord, N. H. 
 
 TUton, Charles E., Tilton, N. H. 
 
118 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF TEE 
 
 Tilton, George H., Laconia, N. H. 
 Todd, Carrie R., Concord, N. H. 
 Treadwell, Abbot, Concord, N. H. 
 Tucker, Gilman H., New York City. 
 Upham, J. Duncan, Claremont, N. H. 
 Vannevar, John, Concord, N. H. 
 Walker, Charles R., Concord, N. H. 
 Walker, Mrs. Helen D., Concord, N. H. 
 Walker, Mrs. Mary C. B., Concord, N. H. 
 Walker, Reuben E., Concord, N. H. 
 Wallace, James B., Canaan, N. H. 
 Waterman, Lucius, Hanover, N. H. 
 Watson, Irving A., Concord, N. H. 
 Webster, John F., Concord, N. H. 
 Webster, Kimball, Hudson, N. H. 
 Welch, John T., Dover, N. H. 
 Wells, Christopher H., Somersworth, N. H. 
 Wentworth, Ellen L., Exeter, N. H. 
 Wheat, William G., Springfield, Mass. 
 Wheeler, Elbert, Nashua, N. H. 
 Wheeler, Giles, Concord, N. H. 
 Wheelock, Edward, Rochester, N. Y. 
 Whitcher, William F., Woodsville, N. H. 
 White, Francis B., Concord, N. H. 
 Whittemore, Arthur G., Dover, N. H. 
 Wilder, Frank J., Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
 Wilson, Mary B., Manchester, N. H. 
 Woodman, Mrs. Elizabeth F., Concord, N. H. 
 Woodman, Susan P., Dover, N. H. 
 Woods, H. Maria, Concord, N. H. 
 Woodworth, Edward K., Concord, N. H. 
 Woodworth, Mrs. Helen W., Concord, N. H. 
 Woodworth, Mrs. Mary P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 HONORAKY MEMBERS 
 
 Adams, Brig. Gen'l., Charles Francis, LL.D., So. Lincoln, Mass., 1911. 
 ♦Adams, Rev. E. E., D.D., Pennsylvania, 1846. 
 *Adams, Franklin George, Topeka, Kan., 1892. 
 *Alden, Rev. Timothy, Pennsylvania, 1826. 
 *Allen, Rev. WilUam, D.D., Maine, 1865. 
 
 Ames, Emma E. Gibson (Mrs. Nathaniel P.). Medford, Mass., 1881. 
 *Deceased. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 119 
 
 *Amory, Hon. Thomas Coffin, A.M., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
 ♦Andrews, Rev. Israel W., Marietta, Ohio, 1884. 
 ♦Angell, Henry C, M.D., Massachusetts, 1865. 
 ♦Angier, Rev. Marshall B., Massachusetts, 1864. 
 *Baldwin, Christopher C, Massachusetts, 1832. 
 ♦Baldwin, Hon. James F., Massachusetts, 1855. 
 *Ballard, Rev. Edward, A.M., D.D., Maine, 1858. 
 ♦Bancroft, George, Ph.D., LL.D., New York, 1839. 
 ♦Baylies, Hon. Francis, Massachusetts, 1831. 
 ♦Beljame, Prof. U., Paris, France, 1876. 
 ♦Bell, Luther V., M.D., Massachusetts, 1844. 
 ♦Bellas, Capt. Henry Hobart, Germantown, Pa., 1894. 
 ♦Benton, Col. Thomas H., Missouri, 1849. 
 ♦Bissell, Edward, Ohio, 1865. 
 ♦Bissell, George H., A.M., LL.D., New York, 1871. 
 ♦Boltwood, Lucius M., Massachusetts, 1859. 
 
 Bouton, Christopher Bell, Chicago, III., 1893. 
 ♦Bouton, John Bell, A.M., New York, 1865. 
 ♦Bouton, N. Sherman, Chicago, 111., igO'J. 
 ♦Bowdoin, James, Esq., A.M., Massachusetts, 1831. 
 ♦Bowen, Francis, A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1850. 
 ♦Bradley, Israel B., M.D., Maine, 1851. 
 ♦Bradley, Samuel A., A.M., Maine, 1838. 
 ♦Broglie, Albert Due de, Paris, France, 1884. 
 ♦Bryant, John Dimcan, Esq., Boston, Mass., 1904. 
 
 Bryce, Rt. Hon. James, D.C.L., LL.D., Washington, D. C, 1911. 
 
 Buddy, Charles R. Esq., Dallas, Texas, 1884. 
 ♦Butler, Rev. Franklin, Vermont, 1861. 
 ♦Carter, Nathaniel H., A.M., New York, 1825. 
 ♦Cass, Hon. Lewis, LL.D., Michigan, 1831. 
 ♦Chamberlain, Hon. Henry, Three Oaks, Mich., 1902. 
 ♦Chamberlain, Hon. Mellen, LL.B., LL.D., Boston, Mass., 1887. 
 ♦Chase, Rt. Rev. Cariton, D.D., Vermont, 1832. 
 ♦Chester, Joseph L., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.H.S., England, 1872. 
 ♦Clapp, Hon. William W., Boston, Mass., 1888. 
 ♦Clifford, Hon. John H., A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts. 1871. 
 ♦Coffin, Charles Carleton, A.M., Massachusetts, 1869. 
 ♦Coffin, Joshua, A.M., Massachusetts, 1833. 
 ♦Cogswell, Rev. William, D.D., Massachusetts, 1837. 
 ♦Cogswell, William F., Esq., New York, 1867. 
 ♦Colburn, Jeremiah, A.M., Massachusetts, 1867. 
 
 Cross, David, LL.D., Manchester, N. H., 1911. 
 ♦Curtis, George T., LL.B., New York City, 1880. 
 
120 DEDICATION OF TEE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 *Danforth, George F., Esq., New York, 1867. 
 ♦Davies, Charles S., LL.D., Maine, 1850. 
 *Davis, Hon. John, LL.D., Massachusetts, 1831. 
 *Day, Hon. Thomas, Connecticut, 1840. 
 *Dix, Gen. John A., New York, 1849. 
 *Drake, Samuel Gardner, Massachusetts, 1833. 
 *Durrie, Daniel S., A.M., Wisconsin, 1867. 
 ♦Eastman, Philip, A.M., Maine, 1861. 
 *Eastman, Col. Seth, United States Army, 1861. 
 *Edmunds, Hon. James M., Washington, D. C, 1866. 
 *Edwards, Rev. Bela B., D.D., Massachusetts, 1839. 
 *Ela, Richard, LL.B., Washington, D. C, 1852. 
 *Elton, Rev. Romeo, A.M., D.D., Rhode Island, 1846. 
 
 Elwyn, Rev. Alfred L., Pennsylvania, 1873. 
 *Emerson, Rev. Ralph, D.D., Massachusetts, 1838. 
 *Eniery, Hon. Nicholas, A.M., LL.D., Maine, 1850. 
 *Felt, Rev. Joseph B., A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1841. 
 *Fessenden, Hon. William Pitt, LL.D., Maine, 1851. 
 *Fisk, Robert F., A.M., LL.B., Massachusetts, 1856. 
 *Fitz, Rev. Daniel, D.D., Massachusetts, 1860. 
 ♦Fletcher, Hon. Richard, A.M., L.L.D., Massachusetts, 1840. 
 *Folsom, George, A.M., LL.D., New York, 1840. 
 ♦Fence, Benjamin B., A.M., Washington, D. C, 1843. 
 
 French, Daniel Chester, A.M., New York City, 1911. 
 ♦Gihnan, Daniel Coit, A.M., LL.D., Baltimore, Md., 1880. 
 ♦Goodrich, Charles B., A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1872. 
 ♦Gookin, John W., Maine, 1850. 
 
 Green, Samuel A., M.D., A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1867. 
 ♦Greene, Hon. Albert G., Rhode Island, 1863. 
 ♦Haines, Hon. William P., LL.D., Maine, 1861. 
 ♦Hall, Rev. Edwin, D.D., Connecticut, 1851. 
 ♦Harris, Rev. Thaddeus M., D.D., Massachusetts, 1826. 
 ♦Hawthorne, Nathaniel, A.M., Massachusetts, 1849. 
 ♦Hemso, Count Jacob Graberg de. Consul General of Sweden, at Florence, 
 
 Italy, 1840. 
 ♦Holden, Luther L., Massachusetts, 1872. 
 ♦Holmes, Abiel, D.D., LL.D., S.T.D., Massachusetts, 1826. 
 
 Holmes, Wilham F., Gilmer, Texas, 1884. 
 
 ♦Hopkins, Mark, S.T.D., A.M., M.D., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1856. 
 ♦Hotclikiss, William H., M.D., New Haven, Conn., 1884. 
 ♦Hough, Hon. Franklin B., M.D., LL.D., New York City, 1883. 
 
 Howard, Cecil Hamden Cutts, Beebe, Ark., 1892. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 121 
 
 Hoyt, Col. Albert H., A.M., Massachusetts, 1867. 
 
 Hubbard, Col. Adolphus S., San Francisco, Cal., 1894. 
 ♦Hubbard, Oliver P., LL.D., A.M., M.D., New York City, 1889. 
 *Humphrey, Samuel F., Maine^ 1872. 
 *Jackson, Hon. Francis, Massachusetts, 1826. 
 *Jewett, Prof. Charles C, A.M., Massachusetts, 1867. 
 *Jordan, John, Jr., Pennsylvania, 1866. 
 
 Jusserand, Hon. Jean Jules, LL.D., Washington, D. C, 1911. 
 *Kent, Hon. Edward, LL.D., Maine, 1854. 
 *Kidder, Frederick, Esq., Massachusetts, 1867. 
 
 Kimball, David P., Boston, Mass., 1909. 
 *Kingsley, Prof. James L., A.M., LL.D., Connecticut, 1837. 
 *Lamb, Mrs. Martha J., New York City, 1888. 
 *Lockwood, Legrand, New York, 1863. 
 
 Low, Abiel A., New York, 1871. 
 *Ludwig, Herman E., J.U.D., New York, 1846. 
 
 Lund, Prof. Troels, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1912. 
 *McCauley, William, Salem, Va., 1881. 
 *McClure, Rev. William, D.D., England, 1873. 
 *Marden, Hon. George A., A.M., Massachusetts, 1872. 
 
 Marshall, Jonathan, A.M., LL.B., New York City, 1880. 
 *Mellen, Hon. Prentiss, LL.B., Maine, 1838. 
 
 Mickley, Joseph J., Esq., Pennsylvania, 1866. 
 ♦Moore, Frank, A.M., New York, 1867. 
 ♦Moore, George Henry, LL.D., New York, 1867. 
 ♦Morse, Prof. S. F. B., LL.D., New York, 1851. 
 
 Morton, Hon. Levi P., LL.D., New York, 1871. 
 ♦Nichols, Rev. Icabod, D.D., Maine, 1850. 
 ♦Noyes, Hon. Edward F., LL.B., LL.D., Ohio, 1871. 
 ♦Parker, Henry M., A.M., LL.B., Massachusetts, 1853. 
 ♦Parker, James, Massachusetts, 1867. 
 ♦Parker, John A., New York, 1871. 
 ♦Parsons, Usher, A.M., M.D., Rhode Island, 1867. 
 ♦Patterson, Hon. George W., New York, 1868. 
 ♦Patterson, Peter, Ontario, 1871. 
 ♦Pickering, Hon. John, Massachusetts, 1835. 
 ♦Plumer, Hon. William, LL.B., Massachusetts, 1855. 
 ♦Poor, Hon. John A., A.M., Maine, 1868. 
 
 Porter, Henry Kirk, Pittsburg, Pa., 1903. 
 ♦Potter, Mrs. Francis McNeil, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1881. 
 ♦Preble, Rear Admiral George H., BrookUne, Mass., 1880. 
 ♦Prescott, William PL, LL.D., Massachusetts, 1839. 
 ♦Prime, WilUam C, LL.D., New York City, 1881. 
 
122 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 
 
 Proctor, Miss Edna Dean, Framingham, Mass., 1912. 
 ♦Quint, Rev. Alonzo H., D.D., A.M., Massachusetts, 1856. 
 *Rafn, C. C, Ph.D., J.U.D., F.S.A., F.R.Q.S., R.S.N.A., Denmark, 1828. 
 ♦Richardson, Hon.William A., A.M., LL.B., LL.D.,Washington, D.C., 1886. 
 ♦Sabine, Lorenzo, A.M., Massachusetts, 1873. 
 
 Sainsbury, W. Noel, London, England, 1889. 
 ♦Savage, Hon. James, Massachusetts, 1852. 
 ♦Sawyer, Nathaniel, A.M., Ohio, 1851. 
 ♦Sawyer, Nathaniel J., M.D., Frankfort, Ky., 1884. 
 ♦Shattuck .Lemuel, Esq., Massachusetts, 1831. 
 ♦Sibley. R«v. John L., A.M., Massachusetts, 1863. 
 ♦Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., A.M., M.D., LL.D., Connecticut, 1846. 
 ♦Sleeper, John S., Massachusetts, 1850. 
 ♦Smith, Hon. Cyrus P., New York, 1871. 
 ♦Smith, Hon. F. O. J., Maine, 1868. 
 
 Snow, Prof. Marshall S., A.M., LL.D., St. Louis, Mo., 1894. 
 ♦Sparks, Hon. Jared, A.M., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1850. 
 ♦Spence, Hon. Carroll, Maryland, 1856. 
 ♦Staples, Hon. William R., A.M., LL.D., Rhode Island, 1831. 
 ♦Stedman, Edmund Clarence, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D., New York City, 1885. 
 ♦Stephens, B. F., A.M., L.H.D., London, Eng., 1889. 
 ♦Stone, William Leete, A.M., LL.B., New York, 1866. 
 ♦Tarbox, Rev. Increase N., D.D., S.T.D., Massachusetts, 1872. 
 ♦Thacher, James, A.M., M.D., Massachusetts, 1832. 
 ♦Thornton, John Wingate, A.M., LL.B., Massachusetts, 1843. 
 ♦Trask, WilUam B., A.M., Massachusetts, 1867. 
 
 Tuck, Hon. Edward, Paris, France, 1909. 
 
 Tucker, Rev. William J., D.D., LL.D., Hanover, N. H. 
 ♦Tuttle, Charles W., A.M., Ph.D., Boston, Mass., 1880. 
 ♦Upham, Rev. Charles W., A.M., Salem, Massachusetts, 1835. 
 ♦Upham, Francis W., LL.D., New York, 1865. 
 ♦Upham, Rev. Thomas C, A.M., LL.D., D.D., Maine, 1831. 
 ♦Vaux, William S., Pennsylvania, 1867. 
 ♦Walker, Hon. Charles I., Michigan, 1865. 
 
 Walker, Nathaniel U., Boston, Mass., 1884. 
 ♦Washburn, William B., LL.D., Massachusetts, 1862. 
 ♦Waterman, Joshua, W. Michigan, 1865. 
 ♦Waterman, Thomas, Massachusetts, 1831. 
 ♦Waters, Hon. Joseph Gilbert, Esq., A.M., Massachusetts, 1831. 
 
 Watson, Alexander T., M.D., Dresden, Saxony, 1876. 
 ♦Webster, Hon. Daniel, LL.D., Massachusetts, 1825. 
 ♦Webster, Prof. N. B., Norfolk, Va., 1880. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 123 
 
 *Webster, Sidney, A.M., New York, 1871. 
 
 *Wentworth, John, A.M., LL.D., Chicago, EL, 1884. 
 
 ♦Wilder, Hon. Marshall P., Ph.D., L.L.D., Massachusetts, 1871. 
 
 Willey, Capt. William Lithgow, Boston, Mass., 1894. 
 *Willis, William, A.M., LL.D., Maine, 1856. 
 
 Winslow, Rev. William Copley, D.D., Boston, Mass., 1894. 
 ♦Winthrop, Robert C, A.M., L.L.D., Boston, Mass., 1881. 
 
 Woods, Joseph W., Massachusetts, 1869. 
 
 LIFE MEMBERS 
 
 Bass, Mrs. Clara Foster, Peterborough, N. H. 
 
 Blodgett, Anna G., FrankUn, N. H. 
 
 Cochrane, Warren R., Antrim, N. H. 
 
 Colby, Fred Myron, Warner, N. H. 
 
 Cummings, Charles H., Weirs, N. H. 
 
 Eastman, Mary C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Eastman, Samuel C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 French, Amos Tuck, Chester, N. H. 
 
 Gerrish, Frank L., Boscawen, N. H. 
 
 Hallett, Mrs. Frances P., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Hobbs, Mrs. Armenia W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kimball, Benjamin A., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kimball, Charlotte G. (Mrs. Henry A.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kimball, George M., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kimball, Henry A., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kimball, John, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Kimball, Myra T. (Mrs. Benjamin A.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Merrill, Adelaide L., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Merrill, Elijah H., San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Schoolcraft, Charles C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 Smyth, Mrs. Marion C, Manchester, N. H. 
 
 Stevens, Ellen T. (Mrs. Henry W.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Stevens, Henry W., Concord, N. H. 
 
 Stevens, J. Elizabeth Hoyt (Mrs. George W.), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Tappan, Eva March, Worcester, Mass. 
 
 Tuck, Julia Stell (Mrs. Edward), Paris, France. 
 
 Varick, William R., Manchester, N. H. 
 
 White, Mrs. Armenia S., Concord, N. H. 
 
 White, Benjamin C, Concord, N. H. 
 
 White, Mabel C. (Mrs. Benjamin C), Concord, N. H. 
 
 Worcester, Franklm, Hollis, N. H. 
 
124 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 
 
 Resident Members 
 
 Note — Resident members were originally limited in number and to citizens of the state. 
 Subsequently both limitations were removed, and the name of the class was changed to 
 active members. 
 
 This is a list of persons who have been resident or active members of the Society, but 
 have ceased to be so, by death or otherwise. 
 
 Qualified according to the Constitution of the Society. 
 this mark * is aflBxed were original members. 
 
 Those to which 
 
 Abbot.Benjamin * 
 Abbot, Edward Augustus 
 Abbot, Francis L. 
 Abbot, Samuel 
 Abbott, Abiel 
 Abbott, Henry 
 Abbott, Joseph B. 
 Abbott, Joseph C. 
 Abbott, William P. 
 Achard, H. J. 
 Adams, Daniel 
 Adams, Ebenezer * 
 Adams, Nathaniel * 
 Aiken, Charles A. 
 Aiken, Edward 
 Alden, Lucius 
 Allen, W. H. H. 
 Amsden, Charles H. 
 Atherton, Charles G. 
 Atherton, Charles H. 
 Atherton, Henry B. 
 Averill, Clinton S. 
 Ayer, Franklin D. 
 Ayer, James 
 Badger, WilUam 
 Bailey, WilUam H. H. 
 Bailey, W. W. 
 Baker, Nathaniel B. 
 Balcom, George L. 
 Ballard, John 
 
 Bancroft, Jesse P. 
 Barker, David, Jr.* 
 Barnard, Daniel 
 Barnard, WiUiam M. 
 Barrett, W'illiam 
 Barron, John V. 
 Barry, John E. 
 Barstow, Z. S. 
 Barter, Lewis W. 
 Bartlett, Mrs. Caroline B. 
 Bartlett, Charles Henry 
 Bartlett, Greenleaf C. 
 Bartlett, Ichabod * 
 Bartlett, James * 
 Bartlett, James W. 
 Bartlett, Richard * 
 Bartlett, William Henry 
 Bartlett, William K. 
 Bartley, Joseph D. 
 Beane, S. C. 
 Bedel, John 
 Beede, George F. 
 Belknap, Horatio G. 
 Bell, Charles H. 
 Bell, Mrs. Cora K. 
 Bell, John J. 
 Bell, Louis 
 Bell, Mrs. Mary E. 
 Bell, Samuel Dana 
 Bell, Samuel N. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 125 
 
 Bingham, G. W. 
 Bingham, Harry 
 Bisbee, Marvin D. 
 Bixby, A. H. 
 Blair, Henry W. 
 Blaisdell, Daniel 
 Blake, Mrs. Charlotte A. 
 BodweU, A. E. 
 Bouton, Nathaniel 
 Bradley, Arthur C. 
 Bradley, Moses Hazen 
 Bradley, Richard 
 Brewster, Charles W. 
 Briggs, William S. 
 Brown, D. Arthur 
 Brown, John A. 
 Brown, John F. 
 Brown, Samuel G. 
 Buckshorn, Louis H. 
 
 Burleigh, George W. 
 
 Burleigh, John A. 
 
 Burleigh, Micajah C. 
 
 Burroughs, Charles* 
 
 Burrows, Joseph 
 
 Burt, Federal 
 
 Busiel, Charles A. 
 
 Butterfield, John Ware 
 
 Campbell, A. H. 
 
 Carpenter, Alonzo P. 
 
 Carpenter, Charles H. 
 
 Carpenter, Mrs. JuUa R. 
 
 Carrigain, Philip 
 
 Carter, Buel C. 
 
 Carter, William G. 
 
 Cartland, Charles S. 
 
 Chadwick, Peter * 
 
 Chamberlain, Horace E. 
 
 Chamberlain, Levi 
 
 Chandler, Abiel 
 
 Chandler, George B. 
 
 Chandler, George Henry 
 
 Chase, Francis R. 
 
 Chase, Henry Bright 
 Cheeney, T. B. 
 Chesley, James G. 
 Churchill, Frank C. 
 Chutter, F. G. 
 Cilley, Bradbury L. 
 Clapp, J. E. 
 Clark, William 
 Clarke, John B. 
 Cleaves, George P. 
 Clifford, CorneUus E. 
 Clough, Lucien B. 
 Coffin, Samuel 
 Cogswell, Elliott C. 
 Cogswell, Francis 
 Cogswell, Leander W. 
 Cogswell, Parsons Brainard 
 Cogswell, WUliam 
 
 Coit, J. Milner 
 
 Colby, Ira 
 
 Colby, James F. 
 
 Conner, Charles G. 
 
 Cook, Howard M. 
 
 Copeland, WilUam L 
 
 Corning, Benjamin H. 
 
 Coues, Samuel E. 
 
 Crane, Cephas B. 
 
 Cressey, Mrs. Aimette M. R. 
 
 Crosby, Dixi 
 
 Crosby, Jaazaniah 
 
 Cross, David 
 
 Cross, George N. 
 
 Cruft, George T. 
 
 Cummings, Ebenezer E. 
 
 Cummings, Horace S. 
 
 Currier, David 
 
 Currier, Moody 
 
 Cutter, Charles William * 
 
 Dana, James Freeman 
 
 Dana, Sylvester 
 
 Danforth, Charles C. 
 
 Da\des, Thomas J., Jr. 
 
126 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 Davis, Josiah G. 
 Dearborn, C. V. 
 Dearborn, John J. 
 DeNormandie, James 
 Dinsmoor, Samuel 
 Dodge, Isaac B. 
 Dow, Edward 
 Dow, Joseph 
 Downing, Lewis, Jr. 
 Downs, Cliarles A. 
 Drew, George W. 
 Durant, E. J. 
 Eames, James H. 
 Eastman, Albert L. 
 Eastman, Charles F. 
 Eastman, Cyrus 
 Eastman, Edson Cummings 
 Eastman, Herbert W. 
 Eastman, Jonathan 
 Eastman, Moses 
 Eastman, Philip 
 Eaton, Mrs. Harriet N. 
 Edgerly, Frank G. 
 Edgerly, James A. 
 Elkins, Jeremiah 
 EUiott, John H. 
 Elwyn, John 
 Emerson, Moses R. 
 Emery, George E. 
 Farmer, John * 
 Farr, Charles A. 
 Farr, Evarts W. 
 Farwell, John L. 
 Fassett, J. H. 
 Faulkner, C. S. 
 Faulkner, Francis A. 
 Faulkner, Francis C. 
 Fergusson, W. A. 
 Fisk, Francis N. 
 Fitts, James H. 
 Fletcher, Arthur 
 Fletcher, Samuel 
 
 Fogg, George Gilman 
 Foster, John W. 
 Foster, WilUam L. 
 Fowler, Asa 
 Fowler, Trueworthy L. 
 Fox, Charles J. 
 Freeman, Asa * 
 French, John C. 
 Frink, J. S. H. 
 Frisbie, F. Senter 
 Frye, John E. 
 Gage, Charles P. 
 Gage, Isaac K. 
 Gale, Charles C. P. 
 Gerould, Edward P. 
 Gerrish, Enoch 
 Gilman, Edward H. 
 Gilman, Virgil C. 
 Gilmore, George C. 
 Gilmore, Joseph A. 
 Goodenough, John C. 
 Goodrich, C. B. 
 Goodwin, Ichabod 
 Goodwin, William F. 
 Goidd, Sylvester C. 
 Gove, Mrs. Jesse A. 
 Gove, Jesse A. 
 Gray, George F. 
 Green, S. D. 
 Greene, J. Alonzo 
 Griffin, Simon G. 
 Grover, Benjamin 
 Hackett, William H. 
 Hackett, WilUam H. Y. 
 Haddock, Charles B. * 
 Hadley, Amos 
 Hale, Charles S. 
 Hale, Salma 
 Hale, Samuel W. 
 Hall, Joshua G. 
 HaU, Marshall P. 
 Ham, John R. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 127 
 
 Hammond, Isaac W. 
 Hammond, Mrs. Martha W. 
 Handerson, Phineas 
 Hardy, Charles C. 
 Harmon, Charles L. 
 Harris, Amanda B. 
 Harris, John A. 
 Hartshorn, F. G. 
 Harvey, Matthew 
 Hatch, John 
 Hatch, Thomas E. 
 Haven, Alfred W. 
 Haven, Nathaniel A., Jr.* 
 Hazelton, John B. 
 Hazen, Henry A. 
 Head, Natt 
 Henry, Hugh 
 Herbert, Alma J. 
 Hildreth, Hosea * 
 Hildreth, H. A. 
 HiU, Mrs. EUa H. J. 
 Hill, Isaac 
 Hill, Isaac Andrew 
 Hill, Joseph C. A. 
 Hitchcock, C. H. 
 Hodgdon, Mrs. Julia A. 
 Hoit, Enos 
 Holden, Farwell P. 
 Holman, Sullivan 
 Hubbard, Henry 
 Humphrey, Moses 
 Hunt, Nathan Parker 
 Hutchins, Abel 
 Hutcliins, Stillson 
 Jackson, J. R. 
 Jenks, George E. 
 Jewett, William R. 
 Jones, John F. 
 Jones, William P. 
 Jordan, Chester B. 
 Kelley, John * 
 Kent, George * 
 
 Kent, Henry O. 
 
 Kent, William A. 
 
 Ketchum, Silas 
 
 Kidder, Joseph 
 
 Killeen, James M. 
 
 Kimball, E. P. 
 
 Kimball, J. R. 
 
 Kimball, Mary 
 
 Kimball, Samuel S. 
 
 Knowlton, Edward L. 
 
 Ladd, Alexander * 
 
 Ladd, Alexander H.* 
 
 Ladd, Fletcher 
 
 Ladd, Seneca A. 
 
 Ladd, W. S. 
 
 Lamberton, James M. 
 
 Langdon, Francis E. 
 
 Langdon, Samuel 
 
 Lathrop, M. C. 
 
 Lawrence, George W. 
 
 Leonard, Levi W. 
 
 Linehan, John C. 
 
 Little, George P. 
 
 Little, WilUam 
 
 Livermore, Abiel A. 
 
 Long, Mrs. J. C. 
 
 Long, Moses 
 
 Lord, John K. 
 
 Lord, Nathan 
 
 Lyford, Stephen C. 
 
 McChntock, John N. 
 
 McColIester, Mrs. Elizabeth E. R. 
 
 McDufEe, Franklin 
 
 McFarland, Andrew 
 
 McFarland, Asa 
 
 McFarland, Henry 
 
 Mack, Robert C. 
 
 McQuesten, E. F. 
 
 Mahaney, J. F. 
 
 Marcy, Daniel 
 
 Marshall, Anson S. 
 
 Marston, Gilman 
 
128 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF THE 
 
 Martin, Noah 
 Mason, Jeremiah * 
 Mason, John Edwin 
 Mathes, A. O. 
 Means, Charles T. 
 Merriam, J. W. 
 Merrill, Joseph W. 
 Meserve, Arthur L. 
 Miller, Frank W. 
 MiUer, James 
 Mitchell, Stephen * 
 Mitchell, William H. 
 Moore, Jacob Bailey * 
 Morrill, Luther S. 
 Morrison, Charles R. 
 Morrison, Leonard A. 
 Morrison, W. H. 
 Moses, George H. 
 Mugridge, John Y. 
 Murkland, Charles S. 
 Murray, George W. 
 Muzzey, Reuben Dimond 
 Nesmith, Annie 
 Nesmith, George W. 
 Noyes, Daniel J. 
 Noyes, John W. 
 Noyes, Parker * 
 Nutter, Eliphalet S. 
 Odell, Lory 
 Odlin, James E. 
 Odlin, Woodbridge 
 Olcoutt, George 
 Oliver, Daniel 
 Ordway, John C. 
 Ordway, Nehemiah G. 
 Palmer, Haven 
 Parker, Edward H. 
 Parker, Edward P. 
 Parker, Joel 
 Parker, Nathan * 
 Parsons, E. G. 
 Pattee, Rufus E. 
 
 Patterson, James W. 
 Peabody, Andrew P. 
 Peabody, Leonard W. 
 Peabody, Oliver W. B.* 
 Pearson, John H. 
 Peaslee, Charles H. 
 Peaslee, Edmund R. 
 Pecker, Robert Eastman 
 Peirce, Andrew * 
 Perkins, Susan G. 
 Perry, John T. 
 Pert, L. B. 
 
 Philbrook, Charles F. B. 
 Pickering, Charles A. 
 Pickering, C. W. 
 Pickering, John J. 
 Pierce, Franklin 
 Pierce, Joshua W. 
 Pike, Austin F. 
 Pike, Edwin G. 
 Pillsbury, George A. 
 Pillsbury, Oliver 
 Pillsbury, Parker 
 Pinkliam, Joseph 
 Plumer, WilUam * 
 Plumer, William, Jr.* 
 Porter, Mrs. Alice R. 
 Porter, Howard L. 
 Porter, Royal H. 
 Potter, Chandler Eastman 
 Pratt, Myron J. 
 Pray, Thomas J. W. 
 Prentiss, John 
 Prescott, Abraham J. 
 Prescott, Addison 
 Prescott, Benjamin F. 
 Prescott, WilUam 
 Proctor, John 
 Punchard, George 
 Putnam, Israel W.* 
 Quimby, E. T. 
 Quint, Alonzo H. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 129 
 
 Randlett, James E. 
 Rediiig, John R. 
 Renouf, Edward P. 
 Richards, Dexter 
 Richardson, William M. 
 Rix, John M. 
 Roberts, Daniel C. 
 Robinson, Allan H. 
 Robinson, Henry 
 Rollins, WilUam H. 
 Rounds, Charles C. 
 Roy, George C. 
 Runnels, Moses T. 
 Rust, R. S. 
 Ryder, E. S. 
 Sanborn, Dj-er H. 
 Sanborn, Edwin D. 
 Sargeant, Cyrus 
 Sargent, Charles W. 
 Sargent, Jonathan Everett 
 Sargent, Mrs. J. E. 
 Savage, Thomas 
 Savage, W. T. 
 Sawyer, Charles H. 
 Sawyer, Edward 
 Sawyer, Henry E. 
 Sawyer, Joseph 
 Scales, John 
 
 Schutz, Mrs. Elizabeth P. 
 Secomb, Daniel F. 
 Seton, Mrs. A. M. Foster 
 Seton, William Henry 
 Shapley, J. Hamilton 
 Shirley, John M. 
 Shurtleff, R. 
 Silsby, Arthur W. 
 SUsby George H. H. 
 Smith, Albert 
 Smith, Asa D. 
 Smith, Eli B. 
 Smith, George Warren 
 Smith, Isaac W. 
 
 Smith, Jeremiali * 
 
 Smith, William * 
 
 Smyth, Frederick 
 
 Spalding, Edward 
 
 Spalding, Edward H. 
 
 Spalding, George B. 
 
 Spalding, Isaac 
 
 Sparhawk, Samuel 
 
 Spofford, C. B. 
 
 Stackpole, Paul A. 
 
 Staniels, Rufus P. 
 
 Stark, WUliam 
 
 Stearns, Eben S. 
 
 Stearns, Onslow 
 
 Steele, John H. 
 
 Stevens, Lyman D. 
 
 Stevens, Samuel H. 
 
 Stevens, William S. 
 
 Stewart, Charles F. 
 
 Stickney, J. A. 
 
 Stone, Benjamin P. 
 
 Tappan, Mrs. Alniira Rice 
 
 Tappan, Charles L. 
 
 Ten Broeck, Petrus Stuyvesant 
 
 Tenney, Jonathan 
 
 Tenney, Richard P. J. 
 
 Thomas, Moses G. 
 
 Thompson, Andrew J. 
 
 Todd, Wilham C. 
 
 Towle, Ebenezer Sanborn 
 
 Towne, William B. 
 
 Tredick, Titus Salter 
 
 Tuck, Amos 
 
 Tucker, W. Howard 
 
 Tufts, Asa Alford 
 
 Tufts, Charles A. 
 
 Tutherly, William 
 
 Twitchell, Amos 
 
 Twitchell, A. S. 
 
 Twitchell, George B. 
 
 Tyler, Bennett * 
 
 Tyler, John E. 
 
130 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING OF TEE 
 
 Upham, James 
 Upham, Joseph B. 
 Upham, Natlianiel Gookin 
 Upham, Timothy * 
 Vaughaii, Orsino A. J. 
 Varney, John R. 
 Wadleigh, George 
 Waite, Albert S. 
 Waldron, Richard Russell 
 Walker, Abiel 
 Walker, Arthur W. 
 Walker, Mrs. Ehzabeth L. 
 Walker, Gustavus 
 Walker, Isaac 
 Walker, J. Albert 
 Walker, Joseph Burbeen 
 Walker, Lyman B. 
 Warren, Benjamin S. 
 Weare, John M. 
 Webster, Claudius B. 
 Webster, Gideon 
 Webster, Horace 
 Webster, Stephen Peabody 
 Weeks, James W. 
 Weeks, John W. 
 Wells, John S. 
 Wentworth, Mark H. 
 
 Wheat, A. F. 
 Wlieeler, Samuel M. 
 \Miite, John A. 
 White, Nathaniel 
 White, William O. 
 Wliitman, G. P. 
 Whitman, Zachariah G. 
 Wiittemore, B. B. 
 Wiley, Frederick L. 
 Wilkins, Elijah R. 
 WiOiams, Jared W. 
 Wilson, James 
 Wingate, Joseph C. A. 
 Wood, Henry 
 Woodbury, Augustus 
 Woodbury, Levi * 
 Woodbury, Peter P. 
 Woodman, Charles W. 
 Woodman, John J. 
 Woods, Andrew S. 
 Woodworth, Albert B. 
 Worcester, George Albert 
 Worcester, Samuel F. 
 Worth, Edmund 
 Yeaton, William 
 Young, Andrew H. 
 Young, John K. 
 
 CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
 
 *Allen, Francis Olcott, Philadelphia, Pa., 1897. 
 ♦Barrows, Rev. Charles D., D.D., Lowell, Mass., 1878. 
 ♦Belknap, Rear Admr. George E., Pensacola, Fla., 1879. 
 
 Boyd, Francis, Boston, Mass., 1883. 
 
 Briggs, Lloyd Vernon, M.D., Boston, Mass., 1901. 
 ♦Brown, Gen. John M., Portland, Me., 1879. 
 
 Burton, George D., Boston, Mass., 1893. 
 *Butterfield, Henry L., M.D., Waupun, Wis., 1877. 
 
 Butterfield, .lonathan Ware, LL.B., Topeka, Kan., 1888. 
 ♦Cameron, Hon Angus, La Crosse, Wis., 1879. 
 ♦Gate, Miss Eliza J., Northampton, Mass., 1880. 
 
 Cilley, Mrs. Jacob G., Cambridge, Mass., 1883. 
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 131 
 
 Cilley, Gen. Jonathan P., Rockland, Me., 1877. 
 *Crump, William C, New London, Conn., 1879. 
 
 Cutter, William R., Woburn, Mass., 1882. 
 *Dana, Hon. Edmund L., W'ilkesbarre, Pa., 1879. 
 ♦Darling, Gen. Charles W., Oneida, N. Y., 1885. 
 *Dean, John Ward, A.M., Boston, IVIass., 1874. 
 ♦Dinsmoor, James, Esq., Sterling, 111., 1893. 
 
 Dinsmore, William, New York City, 1881. 
 
 Eastman, Dr. Edmund T., Boston, Mass., 1882. 
 *Elliott, George M., Lowell, Mass., 1879. 
 
 *Ellis, R«v. George E., A.M., D.D., LL.D., Boston, Mass., 1879. 
 *Elwell, Hon. Edward H., Portland, Me., 1888. 
 *Emery, George E., Lynn, Mass., 1882. 
 
 Emmons, John L., Boston, Mass., 1882. 
 
 ♦Everett, Hon. Edward, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D., Boston, Mass., 1827. 
 *Fearing, Hon. Albert, Hingham, Mass., 1874. 
 
 Fogg, Mrs. Jennie Bouton, Manchester, N. H., 1890. 
 *Fogg, Col. William P., Roselle, N. J., 1878. 
 *Folsom, Capt. Albert A., Boston, Mass., 1887. 
 *Fox, Gustavus V., Lowell, Mass., 1876. 
 *Gibson, Rev. Ehira E., Barre, Mass., 1882. 
 
 Gilman, Rev. Bradley, Canton, Mass., 1893. 
 *Gilman, John T., M.D., Portland, Me., 1881. 
 *Glidden, Lt., Col. John M., Newcastle, Me., 1897. 
 
 Goodell, Abner C, Salem, Mass., 1881. 
 ♦Gordon, Capt., George A., Somerville, Mass., 1878. 
 
 Greenough, Charles P., Boston, Mass., 1880. 
 *Hale, George S., A.M., Boston, Mass., 1881. 
 ♦Harvey, Hon. Peter, A.M., Boston, Mass., 1875. 
 ♦Haskell, Edwin B., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
 ♦Haynes, Prof. Henry W., A.M., Boston, Mass., 1880. 
 ♦Hazen, Rev. Henry A., D.D., Auburndale, Mass., 1890. 
 ♦Hill, Horatio, Chicago, 111., 1885. 
 
 ♦Hobart, Brig. Gen. Harrison C, Milwaukee, Wis., 1887. 
 ♦Huguet-Latour, Maj. L. A., Montreal, Canada, 1881. 
 ♦Hutchinson, Charles W., Utica, N. Y., 1876. 
 ♦Jameson, Rev. Ephraim O., Millis, Mass., 1886. 
 ♦Jenness, John S., New York City, 1875. 
 ♦Ketchum, Rev. Silas, Maplewood, Mass., 1876. 
 ♦Kuigsley, WilUam L., New Haven, Ct., 1874. 
 ♦Le Bosquet, Rev. John, South\'ille, Mass., 1884. 
 ♦Lincoln, Hon. Enoch, A.IM., Fryeburg, Me., 1827. 
 
132 DEDICATION OF THE BUILDING 
 
 Littlefield, George E., Boston, Mass., 1888. 
 
 McClintock, John M., Boston, Mass., 1893. 
 
 McMurphy, Rev. Jesse G., Derry, N. H., 1894. 
 
 Mason, John Edwin, M.D., Washington, D. C, 1888. 
 
 Mason, Robert M., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
 ♦Merrill, Hon. Samuel, Des Moines, la., 1882. 
 *Parsons, Calvin, Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1879. 
 ♦Peabody, Hon. Charles A., New York City, 1875. 
 *Perry, John S., Cincinnati, 0., 1878. 
 *Pierce, Col. Fred C, Rockford, 111., 1885. 
 *Poore, Benjamin Perley, Newburyport, Mass., 1879. 
 
 Porter, Rev. Edward G., A.M., Lexington, Mass., 1882. 
 *Prescott, Addison, Topeka, Kan., 1881. 
 *Prescott, Hon. John H., Salina, Kan., 1882. 
 *Quincy, Edmund, A.M., Dedham, Mass., 1874. 
 
 Raikes, George A., F.S.A., F.S.S., F.R.S.L., F.R.H.S., London, Eng., 1887. 
 
 Richards, Hetta M. Hervey (Mrs. Pierre E.), London, Eng., 1890. 
 ♦Rollins, Daniel, Boston, Mass., 1883. 
 ♦RolUns, Edward A., A.M., Philadelphia, Pa., 1879. 
 
 Sanborn, Franklin B., Concord, Mass., 1899. 
 *Sandham, Alfred, Toronto, Canada, 1875. 
 *Savage, James W., Omaha, Neb., 1875. 
 
 Seward, Rev. Josiah L., Keene, N. H., 1881. 
 ♦Slafter, Rev. Edmund F., A.M., D.D., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
 *Spalding, Rev. Samuel J., D.D., Newburyport, Mass., 1875. 
 
 Stearns, Charles S., Charlestown, Mass., 1878. 
 
 Stevens, Herman Weed, A.M., Brookline, Mass., 1897. 
 ♦Stone, Eben F., A.M., LL.B., Newburyport, Mass., 1879. 
 
 Swain, Hon. Charles R., Boston, Mass., 1879. 
 ♦Thatcher, Rear Admr. Henry K., Winchester, Mass., 1875. 
 ♦Tucker, Ichabod, A.M., Salem, Mass., 1827. 
 ♦Tucker, Hon. William W., A.M., Boston, Mass., 1883. 
 ♦Tuttle, Charles W., A.M., Ph.D., Boston, Mass., 1874. 
 
 Wadleigh, Henry W., Boston, Mass., 1877. 
 ♦Warner, Hon. William F., Waverly, N. Y., 1881. 
 
 Wells, Frederic P., Newbury, Vt., 1902. 
 ♦Wentworth, Hon. John, A.M., LL.D., Chicago, 111., 1879. 
 ♦Whitmore, William H., A.M., Boston, Mass., 1889. 
 ♦Witherow, Rev. Thomas, D.D., Londonderry, Ire., 1883. 
 ♦Woodbury, Rev. Augustus, Providence, R. I., 1875. 
 ♦Woodbury, Hon. Charles Levi, Boston, Mass., 1876. 
 ♦Woodward, Royal, Albany, N. Y., 1880. 
 ♦Deceased. 
 
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